#arrogance

Was I ignorant, then, when I was seventeen? I think not. I knew everything. A quarter-century's experience of life since then has added nothing to what I knew. The one difference is that at seventeen I had no 'realism'. ↗

— Yukio Mishima

#experience

It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60). ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#god #hubris #impudence #understanding #art

Be to her, Persephone, All the things I might not be; Take her head upon your knee. She that was so proud and wild, Flippant, arrogant and free, She that had no need of me, Is a little lonely child Lost in Hell,—Persephone, Take her head upon your knee; Say to her, “My dear, my dear, It is not so dreadful here. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

#arrogance

Smartass Disciple: Why do arrogant people like to say complex words ? Master of Stupidity: Ask them straight! You'll get a simple scary version. ↗

— Toba Beta

#complex #frenzy #scary-version #simple #truth

Your arrogance doesn't cheapen me. ↗

— Toba Beta

#cheapen #pride #secret #arrogance

Oh, the cleverness of me! ↗

— J.M. Barrie

#arrogance

I'm too old to know everything ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#humour #youthful-arrogance #arrogance

Arrogance is a creature. It does not have senses. It has only a sharp tongue and the pointing finger. ↗

— Toba Beta

#sign-of-weakness #arrogance

Are you kidding? He's arrogant, sarcastic, likes to intimidate people, and—oh." Okay. Maybe she had a point. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#arrogance

The arrogant half smile I disliked so much tipped up one corner of his swollen lips. “You’re barely glowing now. ↗

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

#obsidian #arrogance