Top 199 Arrogant Quotes

There’s nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there’s nothing other than machinery that can replace youth.

I think it’s unconscionable for a Senator from Massachusetts to come down here and tell the people of Florida what’s right for them. It’s arrogant and irresponsible.

If you’re the greatest, it’s okay to say you’re the greatest. My suggestion to everybody is to be their own greatest fan. Weaker personas and personalities define that as egotistical or arrogant, but what it means is their self-esteem isn’t that strong.

I was 17, on TV, and kind of thought, ‘I’m awesome. Why don’t you treat me like an adult?’ I was arrogant.

I’m not shy in the spotlight. I might seem austere and even arrogant, but far from it, I’m actually shy.

Without sounding arrogant, I achieved a lot more than I thought I would do.

I dislike arrogant men and diva behavior in either gender.

I met with Hitchcock when I was a very, very young actress just starting out and he was making ‘Frenzy’ in London and I was sent along to meet with him. He was very, very unimpressed with me and I have to say, I was rather unimpressed with him – but only because I was an arrogant, ignorant young actress.

When people talk about my business, my life, I’m really private. Maybe someone thinks I’m arrogant or something, but it’s just me.

We want to believe that we’re invulnerable, and that people who get tricked deserve it. Well, they don’t. And someday the arrogant types who mock the gullible are likely to get their turn to wear the dunce cap.

All over the U.S. there are people whose lives are being destroyed for lack of proper health care provision, and there is no sight more odious than the rich, powerful and arrogant trying to keep it that way.

There’s something so arrogant about us creating robots that are more and more human-looking or acting. It’s like we’re playing God. Let’s create something that’s a reflection of us, but it’s inferior.

I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I’m not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.

Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive.

When I look back, I can see why people thought I was aggressive. My first single, ‘Do It Like A Dude,’ resulted in a lot of misconceptions about me. I’m confident – but I’m not arrogant.

We were kind of arrogant when we started and became really humbled as we were doing architecture. It’s really hard to work with budgets and deadlines and all of these collaborators and all of these voices and special interests.

Not trying to be arrogant, but if I walked down the street and a girl saw me, she might take a look back because maybe I’m good-looking, right?

I don’t mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I’m good at. I do what I do and that’s it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.

People accuse me of being arrogant all the time. I’m not arrogant, I’m focused.

I do believe there is life in outer space. Mathematically, there has to be, and if you believe as I do that there is a creator of the universe, then how can we be so arrogant to believe he created life here and nowhere else?

Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House.

I always thought, ‘TV is very specific and I’m not really into that.’ I was a bit too arrogant on that front.

If anyone gets arrogant about their religion, that’s when the religion isn’t effective anymore. Any decent religion or any decent philosophy is always about tolerance and individual freedom, not about harm.

I am not arrogant but yes I am rude.

I’m in trouble because I’m normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don’t like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself.

We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.

Am I arrogant? I’ve been arrogant, sure; everybody’s been arrogant.

I don’t pay much attention to career or what other people think. I’ve always been quite arrogant.

On the field, I’m very, very arrogant – cocky. I think that’s how you have to be as a DB. All the great DBs I know – the best DBs ever – had that. I bet you couldn’t rank the top 10 of DBs and say when he was playing he was very humble and didn’t talk smack. I think it would be impossible.

I always believe in pants. You can play with your legs, your attitude, with pants. It’s much more funny. It’s much more sophisticated. It’s much more arrogant, like a man with feminine attitude. I love pants.

Even before I got on ‘SNL’ I assumed I would do some type of sitcom; I kind of thought that was how I would start. I don’t mean to sound arrogant – I just thought I would be best suited to the form.

I think it’s important for scientists to be a bit less arrogant, a bit more humble, recognising we are capable of making mistakes and being fallacious – which is increasingly serious in a society where our work may have unpredictable consequences.

It’s insane that, since the Beatles and Dylan, it’s assumed that all musicians should do everything themselves. It’s that ridiculous, teenage idea that when Mick Jagger sings, he’s telling you something about his own life. It’s so arrogant to think that people would want to know about it anyway!

Designers have been uncreative and very arrogant. They need to listen to people. People have always wanted more exciting, interesting design, but we designers didn’t see it.

When I made my first film, I was arrogant and over-confident.

I’m not intelligent. I’m not arrogant. I’m just like the people who read my books. I used to have a jazz club, and I made the cocktails and I made the sandwiches. I didn’t want to become a writer – it just happened.

I know I look arrogant, but I’m altogether a different person outside the ring.

Walmart is not arrogant. We could go away at any minute. I think most of us act that way every day. If you’re not willing to fail – and we are failing at some things – you’re going to go away.

I love Washington, D.C.; I love this country, but I think over the last hundred years we’ve built up would I call an arrogant empire: people who think the rest of us are too stupid to make our own decisions.

The funniest thing happened in one of my first scenes. In the beginning Emma was really arrogant and punk and in every scene she would slam the door when she walked in or out.

For years, I didn’t give interviews because I was scared of people judging me or thinking I was arrogant.

There’s a famous slogan here in the Bavarian dialect, and we use it inside Bayern Munich. We say, ‘Mia san mia.’ Literally, it is, ‘We are we,’ but it means, ‘We are who we are.’ That’s not being very arrogant, but we are very confident about our ability to win the game. It is about a winning mentality.

Starting off, I was pretty arrogant. They handed an 18-year-old the keys to a D1 FBS-contending university. I blew up a little bit, said some things I didn’t mean, and that follows you. You get one chance to make a first impression. I made the wrong one.

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person’s main task in life – becoming a better person.

I was introverted, shy. But if you win a lot you need to be extroverted, or they’ll think you’re arrogant.

The thing with me is that I’m quite arrogant.

Men know everything – all of them – all the time – no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.

I think it’s so completely bizarre and arrogant for anyone to ever think that they could lose their innocence, because that implies that they have some sense, some idea of what’s going on, and no one has any idea what’s going on.

In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive.

I don’t want to be that guy that’s either arrogant or rubs people the wrong way.

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

I don’t want to sound arrogant or cocky, but taking a fight on short notice against ‘Cowboy,’ you have to be mentally strong.

Black people, too, are capable of being culturally arrogant.

If someone asks a stupid question, you can only give a stupid answer or appear arrogant.

I wouldn’t necessarily say I’m arrogant. I’m just confident.

Some people feel like I’m arrogant. It’s unfortunate, because people don’t know my heart.

In the bad old days, captains were not good leaders. They didn’t build teams; they were arrogant and autocratic.