"Arrogance is an exaggeration of the truth"

"Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance"

"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"

"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"

"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"

"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 truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance"

"The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth"