"Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent"

"Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance"

"Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves"

"I'm Billy the Kid, the fastest draw. It's not arrogance. It's the truth"

"As an artist you have to have a certain amount of arrogance"

"The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke"

"The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos"

"Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive"

"Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change"

"When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses"

"The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled"