Colin Quinn Quotes

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

Who think themselves most wise are greatest fools

I'd never want to get too big for my boots.

I never wanted to be 'the big I-Am.'

Anyone who thinks they're indispensible is fooling themselves.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

When I did the film 'Hear My Voice' a few years ago, I disappeared fully up my own backside for a while. Because I thought my career was taking off, I became a bit of an egomaniac and a pain in the neck. I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head.

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.

False modesty can be worse than arrogance.

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

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

On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be.

I'm not great enough to be humble.

One must be arrogant, indeed, to imagine that one can take everything in one's hand and know everything!

Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.

I've got it all: I'm good-looking, I'm educated, I can sing, and I can play rugby. Ridiculous, isn't it?

I don't know how humble a person can be while consistently spouting statements like 'I, Donald Trump, am a totally gifted politician,' or 'I'm, like, a smart person.'

I have a little bit of a big head.

I find it alarming that people are so convinced they're the best at anything - presenting, hairdressing, getting dressed.

You have seen in football that if you start to think you are the 'Special One,' or that you are better than the others, that is the moment when you will be beaten.