D. H. Lawrence Quotes

When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books and watched obscure movies and only listened to obscure music.

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

The French are so into themselves that they don't even notice you.

Any specialized skill may be capitalized on and so may lead to arrogance and contempt of others. Even one's age may become ground for conceit. The young, because they are bright and capable, may look down upon the old; and the old, because they are rich in experience, may look down upon the young.

I kind of want to take the writer down a peg. I think there are a lot of pretentious writers in this business, which I am certainly one, in certain cases.

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.

It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

Some of my favorite characters that I've played have been very pompous because I love making fun of pompous people.

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

It's not good for comedy to be like, 'Thanks for liking me.' Being popular is poison.

I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled.

The people I respect the least are the ones that take themselves way too seriously.

I was trying to be 27 at age 47, but God had to get rid of my vanity. I had trouble letting go of the old Lex physically. My human fleshly nature didn't want to let go of what had come to be billed as 'The Total Package.' I guess God had to help me get rid of the last remnant of that vanity and pride.

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don't give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

It's not about ego. Really. If it was ego, I'd be telling you about my awesome... oh, never mind.

But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth.

What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

Don't get me wrong - intellectual snobbery is vulgar and gauche.

Washington is a city of arrogance.