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The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny
The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.
This is an impressive crowd: the Have's and Have-more's. Some people call you the elites. I call you my base.
This is an impressive crowd: the Have's and Have-more's. Some people call you the elites. I call you my base.
Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't.
Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't.
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it read more
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation read more
When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities
He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
It's only arrogance if you're wrong
It's only arrogance if you're wrong
There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.
There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.
