Words matter. These are the best Smug Quotes from famous people such as Gwendoline Christie, Pankaj Mishra, Rachel Field, Holly Valance, Loren Eiseley, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I love the character of Jaime Lannister. He’s just so complex – a character that we love to hate – but it’s a lot more complex than hatred. It starts off, and he seems so arrogant and so smug.
An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites.
Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.
I’ve got such a disgusting, wide, smug grin on my face all the time that my friends just want to slap me. I’ve never been so happy.
God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course.
What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
I became frustrated early on as a playwright by a kind of smug smallness in modern drama. There was a lack of what I now understand as courage in the work of others as well as in my own work, and I found I was mildly amused or interested by such plays but not deeply engaged or enlightened.
One thing lots of Christians do have in common is that they can’t help coming across as smug. This winds lots of people up, particularly because famous Christians pronounce on the life of the poor from their very lovely affluent homes filled with their very lovely families and attractive pets.
I can’t be smug, because I know that you can lose anything at any point. And I can’t be angry, because I haven’t lost it.
I think that London is very much like that. I find there’s humour in the air and people are interesting. And I think that it’s a place which is constantly surprising. The worst thing about it? I think it can be smug and aggressive.
The 1950s felt so safe and smug, the ’60s so raw and raucous, the revolutions stacked one on top of another, in race relations, gender roles, generational conflict, the clash of church and state – so many values and vanities tossed on the bonfire, and no one had a concordance to explain why it was all happening at once.
I’ve always wanted to live really high up, and this is the only flat in the building with a balcony, so I feel quite smug up here.
How arrogant – how very far from humility – would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come and clean up our mess? Hope for a nanny God, who will with a miracle grant us amnesty from our folly – that’s not aligned with either history or the text of the Bible.
Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national defense were guided by a coherent ideology instead of smug ignorance.
I don’t want to sound smug but I am reasonably satisfied with how it’s gone. I think it’s fine.
There’s always something at least a little smug about self-reference – magazine articles about idealistic journalists, TV shows about TV actors, ironic films within ironic-er films: all this meta-media populated by thinly disguised characters making oblique inside jokes.
London represents the idea that someone pulled away the set from my life and replaced it with another. ‘Here is your new baby. Here is your new life. And now you do comedy.’ Without being smug, it’s the best fun.
Without appearing smug in any way, I would say I did not have a role model. I wish I had but I did not.
For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
In the real world, I see conservatives volunteering at adoption agencies, at churches, at bake sales and the local American Legion Post while the only charity a progressive sends is a smug sermon on fair share and what fairness is.
I never feel like a smug or a smart-alec film director, and there are plenty of those around.
For me, faith is more about aspiration than complacency – the smug satisfaction that other people find distasteful.
