Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.

There's no snobbery in me.

It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.

Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.

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.

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

I loved playing the headmistress in 'The Falling' - she was so spiteful. She certainly fancied herself quite a lot.

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

Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.

The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.

I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.

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.

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

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.

It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.

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

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

The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of: the last he does not concern himself about.

Whenever he met a great man he groveled before him, and my-lorded him as only a freeborn Briton can do.

Washington is a city of arrogance.

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.

You know our nation. If a citizen officer of one town has just one more silver button on his epaulette than another, great hue and cry arises and the important cause goes by the board …

A Plowman on his knees is higher than a Gentleman on his legs.

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