Most Arrogant Quotes

• Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.

  Samuel Richardson

  Spiritual, Pride, Arrogant

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.73

  58 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

  Kanye West

  Pain, Conceited, Rapper

  "Does Kanye West Believe He’s God?" by Smokey Fontaine, theurbandaily.cassiuslife.com. March 3, 2009.

  56 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am so credible and so influential and so relevant that I will change things.

  Kanye West

  Nucleus, Egomaniacs, Influential

  "Behind Kanye’s Mask". Interview with Jon Caramanica, www.nytimes.com. June 11, 2013.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.

  Chris Lowe

  Stupid, Long, Ego

  "The Pet Shop Boys' Commandments". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2003.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• People whistle me because I am good-looking, rich and a great footballer. They are jealous of me.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Jealous, People, Rich

  18 Copy quote

• I'm like a vessel, and God has chosen me to be the voice and the connector.

  Kanye West

  Inspirational, Sleep, Voice

  "FADER 58: Kanye West Cover Story and Interview". Interview with Peter Macia, www.thefader.com. November 25, 2008.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.

  Kanye West

  Sleep, Artist, Our Generation

  "Why Kanye West really is the world's No 1 rock star" by Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. December 20, 2013.

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I think of competition it's like I try to create against the past. I think about Michelangelo and Picasso, you know, the pyramids.

  Kanye West

  Inspirational, Sleep, Past

  "Kanye West Has a Goblet" by Jonah Weiner, www.slate.com. August 25, 2010.

  61 Copy quote

  Show source

• Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one.

  Jose Mourinho

  Soccer, Football, Thinking

  "They said it: Jose Mourinho". www.fifa.com. May 27, 2016.

  72 Copy quote

  Show source

• When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken.

  David Hume

  Men, Stupidity, Arrogance

  43 Copy quote

• Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time the most arrogant.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Self, Arrogance

  Michel de Montaigne (1973). “Selections from the Essays”, Harlan Davidson

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Arsene Wenger asked me to have a trial with Arsenal when I was 17. I turned it down. Zlatan doesn't do auditions

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic

  Football, Trials, Wenger

  47 Copy quote

• The idea that we have the right to inflict suffering and death on other sentient beings for the trivial reasons of palate pleasure and fashion is, without doubt, one of the most arrogant and morally repugnant notions in the history of human thought.

  Gary L. Francione

  Death, Fashion, Ideas

  53 Copy quote

• These are the most arrogant pricks in the world starting with Belichick on down.

  Terrell Suggs

  Arrogant, World, Starting

  "Super Bowl lineup: Ray Lewis, Colin Kaepernick and the Harbowl" by Paolo Bandini, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2013.

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.

  Ouida

  Genius, Arrogant, Scorn

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.317, Ouida

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• One of the most arrogant undertakings, to my mind, is to write the biography of a man which pretends to go beyond external facts and gives the inmost motives. One of the most mendacious is autobiography.

  Theodor Haecker

  Writing, Men, Giving

  4 Copy quote

• I want to fall on the floor laughing - imagining Hillary Clinton working well in the Senate with everybody else! Oh, give me a break. I've already joked in print that they would need to build her a private cloakroom on the Mall. This is not a woman who has any ability to deal with the mass of humanity. She is the most arrogant, the most moralistic, the most sermonizing and annoying person on earth.

  Camille Paglia

  Fall, Laughing, Giving

  23 Copy quote

• Nothing is so convenient as a decisive argument ... which must at least silence the most arrogant bigotry and superstition, and free us from their impertinent solicitations. I flatter myself, that I have discovered an argument ... which, if just, will, with the wise and learned, be an everlasting check to all kinds of superstitious delusion, and consequently, will be useful as long as the world endures. For so long, I presume, will the accounts of miracles and prodigies be found in all history, sacred and profane.

  David Hume

  Wise, Long, Silence

  David Hume, Eric Steinberg (1992). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature”, p.73, Hackett Publishing

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I believe in clear-cut positions. I think that the most arrogant position is this apparent, multidisciplinary modesty of "what I am saying now is not unconditional, it is just a hypothesis," and so on. It really is a most arrogant position. I think that the only way to be honest and expose yourself to criticism is to state clearly and dogmatically where you are. You must take the risk and have a position.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Believe, Commitment, Cutting

  "Conversations with Žižek". Book by Slavoj Žižek and Glyn Daly, 2004.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I found that of the senses, the eye is the most superficial, the ear the most arrogant, smell the most voluptuous, taste the most superstitious and fickle, touch the most profound and the most philosophical.

  Helen Keller

  Philosophical, Eye, Smell

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.34, Courier Corporation

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Then you're aping him. Valentine was one of the most arrogant and disrespectful men I've ever met. I suppose he brought you up to be just like him." "Yes," Jace said, unable to help himself, "I was trained to be an evil mastermind from a young age. Pulling the wings off flies, poisoning the earth's water supply — I was covering that stuff in kindergarten. I guess we're all just lucky my father faked his own death before he got to the raping and pillaging part of my education, or no one would be safe.

  Cassandra Clare

  Father, Valentine, Men

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.504, Simon and Schuster

  56 Copy quote

  Show source

• Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.

  A. N. Wilson

  Liars, Believe, Angel

  A. N. Wilson (1990). “Incline Our Hearts”, Penguin Group USA

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Liberals are some of the most arrogant, condescending smart alecks, but they're just pure ignorant, and they fit the bill of people who have no love and no respect for the founding of this country.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Smart, People

  7 Copy quote