Eugene Delacroix Quotes

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

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

When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’.

When he asked me, with obvious self-satisfaction, what I thought of the scenario, I hardly knew how to answer. I asked if he had seen the play and was hardly surprised when he said no.

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.

Most politicians are vain. Many of them are stupid.

If you try to come off as this big-time star with an attitude, people don't like that.

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.

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

I feel arrogant trying to give people advice.

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.

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

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.

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

We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.

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

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

The worst thing you could ever get is people who think they know everything.

Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

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

Washington is a city of arrogance.

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

I have no business carrying myself like some diva.