Jerome K. Jerome Quotes

The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.

People don't like when you point out to them and remind them that they're not very smart.

People should just get over themselves.

Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

Clearly I've got an ego.

The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against others.

I've been in things that have impressed people and they've come up to congratulate you but in a kind of, you-must-think-you're-really-special way.

People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.

Some prideful people are not so concerned as to whether their wages meet their needs as they are that their wages are more than someone else's. Their reward is being a cut above the rest. This is the enmity of pride.

You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.

There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.

I'm out of here, I'm better than all of you.

I love to show off my ability in a nice way.

I mean, I don't like anyone who likes themselves too much.

A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do something more than they do, whereby his superiority may be apparent.

Men and nations cannot bear to feel inferior.

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

an intellectual arrogance and unconscious assumption of superiority.

Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.

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

Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them?

Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.

There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.

Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.