Rachel Caine Quotes

The arrogance that accompanies merit offends us even more than the arrogance of people who are lacking in merit: since merit itself offends us.

Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility.

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

Arrogance is, as it were, a solicitation on the part of one seeking honor for followers, whom he thinks he is entitled to treat with contempt.

You aren't that big a hot shot that we'd build this for you.

I have no business carrying myself like some diva.

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.

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.

Pride is a fault that great men blush not to own: it is the ennobled offspring of self-love; though, it must be confessed, grave and pompous vanity, Iike a fat plebeian in a rove of office, does very often assume its name.

Vanity is a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs, and chuck us over; but pride is a fine horse, that will carry us over the ground, and enable us to distance our fellow-travelers.

The opposite of humility is arrogance--the belief that we are wiser or better than others. Arrogance promotes separation rather than community. It looms like a brick wall between us and those from whom we could learn.

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

Confidence quickly curdles into arrogance; smarts turn to smugness, charm turns to smarm.

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.

I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

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

Under all wrongdoing lies personal vanity or the feeling that we are endowed and privileged beyond our fellows.

As far as big egos, there are definitely guys out there that just think God only knows what about themselves.

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.

If I was sharp in every area, I might be too big-headed or something.

But I think bands that rolled in with a big attitude, like they were some big deal, I just found that very strange.

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.