Toba Beta Quotes

The biggest turn-off for me is people who think the world of themselves. Arrogance is not a sexy quality, and it really gets on my nerves.

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

Washington is a city of arrogance.

I hate elitists. I hate conceited people. I hate pompous people.

I forgive all personal weaknesses except egomania and pretension.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw.

Conceit is God's gift to little men.

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

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.

A lot of self-importance goes on in the fashion industry. I'm not like that.

Egos turn me off, big time.

There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.

Pride and vanity, the opposites of humility, can destroy our spiritual health as surely as a debilitating disease can destroy our physical health.

an intellectual arrogance and unconscious assumption of superiority.

I have no business carrying myself like some diva.

Frankly, it's embarrassing to have a house filled with giant portraits of yourself.

Arrogance - I have very little tolerance for that.

People say, 'Since you got rich and famous, you've become insufferable.' I say, 'That's not true. I've always been insufferable.'

I find it alarming that people are so convinced they're the best at anything - presenting, hairdressing, getting dressed.

I never wanted to be 'the big I-Am.'