Arrogant Behavior Quotes

If you want to know how to make people shun you and laugh at you behind your back and even despise you, here is the recipe: Never listen to anyone for long. Talk incessantly about yourself. If you have an idea while the other person is talking, don't wait for him or her to finish: bust right in and interrupt in the middle of a sentence.

The insolent civility of a proud man is, if possible, more shocking than his rudeness could be; because he shows you, by his manner, that he thinks it mere condescension in him; and that his goodness alone bestows upon you what you have no pretense to claim.

No human beings, black, yellow, or white could be quite as untruthful, as insincere, as arrogant—in short, as untrustworthy in every way—as the Russians.

The biggest fool is the one who thinks he knows it all.

It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.

It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don’t like something, it is empirically not good. I don’t like Chinese food, but I don’t write articles trying to prove it doesn’t exist.

Trump cannot change because in his mind, he has ALWAYS been rewarded for his boorish, stupid, arrogant behavior.

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to "Americanize" him.

Man, only - rash, refined, presumptuous man, Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan.

I am so mean I've handcuffed lightnin' and thrown thunder in jail.

Conceit is an outward manifestation of inferiority.

I have always been an arrogant man.

Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.

Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a pretty cocktail in an office-mate and not a pretty cocktail in a head of state. In fact, in a leader, it's a lethal cocktail.

But then, like George Michael in a men's bathroom, I got cocky.

The self-righteous feel no need to be charming, and thus double their offensiveness.

Nothing is more dastardly than to act with bravado toward God.

I was a very unpleasant young man. If I met the young Ingmar today I'd say, 'You're very talented and I'll try to help you, but I don't want anything else to do with you.

Why is the United States behaving so arrogantly? All that (Mr. Bush) wants is Iraqi oil.

It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt

I used to burn rubber at every light, mean mugging everything there was, cause that was my attitude.

Truth without humility would be an arrogant caricature.

He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.

What I don't like are arrogant people. We're all equal. I don't like it when a person assumes to be better.