Neil Cavuto Quotes

an intellectual arrogance and unconscious assumption of superiority.

Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.

Washington is a city of arrogance.

Arrogance is a creature. It does not have senses. It has only a sharp tongue and the pointing finger.

I don't like intellectuals, or, at least, people who call themselves that way, because I am under the impression that there is always something condescending in their demeanour, and I don't like condescending people.

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

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.

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

Unbridled arrogance is worse than pride; for if pride will not break a superior, arrogance will not brook and equal.

I don't want you to think I'm better than people or that I know better than people.

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.

I think pompous accents are inherently funnier.

I had this attitude, that Silicon Valley obnoxious attitude, that I know what I'm doing, and the rest was going to be pretty easy.

Arrogance and snobbism live in adjoining rooms and use a common currency.

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.

The biggest turn-off for me is people who think the world of themselves. Arrogance is not a sexy quality, and it really gets on my nerves.

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.

What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.

Snobbery just inhibits you.

By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw.

My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it.