Joseph Conrad Quotes

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

He spoils his undoubted talents by his excessive assurance, his contempt for other people's point of view, and his attitude of a king in exile.

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.

We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.

You're just poor cornball provincial people, you critics; you just don't know what the hell you're talking about.

A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.

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

Two sentiments inherent in power never fail to produce this moral corruption; they are: contempt for the masses and the overestimation of one's own merits.

... condescending SOBs

That the Hawkings were eccentric, even odd, was well known. That they were aloof, convinced of their own intellectual superiority over the rest of the human race, was also widely recognized in St. Albans, where they were regarded with a suspicion and awe.

When you're young and arrogant and cocky and feel you're invincible, you say a lot of mean things to a lot of people because you think you're better, you don't need to deal with people.

When you by nature subscribe to the view that everyone except yourself is a berk or a wanker, it is hard to bond with anybody in any rational common cause.

No matter how much someone may irritate me, I have no right to puff myself up with my own self-importance so as to declare that person to be absolutely incompetent, assuming a posture of disdain from my own position of false superiority.

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.

Contempt is egotism in ill- humor.

Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous.

Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness.

I thought I was fabulous and everyone else was stupid.

In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance.

we are so scornful when we are young!

Stupid, fragile mortals.

I have been despised by better men than you.

Do you suppose that it is within your power to insult me? You evidently are not aware to whom you are speaking? Do you imagine that the envenomed spittle of five hundred little gentlemen of your type, heaped one upon another, would succeed in slobbering so much as the tips of my august toes?

You don't know what life is. You know nothing.