We judge of others for the most part by their good opinion of themselves; yet nothing gives such offense or creates so many enemies, as that extreme self-complacency or superciliousness of manner, which appears to set the opinion of every one else at defiance.
The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.
Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude.
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.
The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.
I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know.
It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend.
Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy, tormented face.
Then it suddenly and theatrically began to clean itself in the way cats do when they want you to know what a big deal you aren't.
Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature.
