Feeling of superiority Quotes

Judging the mistakes of strangers is an easy thing to do - and it feels pretty good.

There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named -- the happy anticipation of being able to feel contempt.

The rich feel full of merit.

Victory is plesant, not only to those who love to conquer, bot to all; for there is produced an idea of superiority, which all with more or less eagerness desire.

Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors.

Superciliousness is not safe after all, because a person who forms the habit of wearing it may some day find his lower lip grown permanently projected beyond the upper, so that he can't get it back, and must go through life looking like the King of Spain.

Contempt is not a thing to be despised. It may be borne with a calm and equal mind, but no man, by lifting his head high, can pretend that he does not perceive the scorns that are poured down on him from above.

Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.

The critics can say stupid things and we can enjoy them, if we have the legitimate feeling of superiority - the satisfaction of a duty accomplished.

There's no point in success if you don't let it go to your head. That's what it's for.

Contempt is the emotion we feel for an opponent whose arguments are too formidable to refute.

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