Bill Kristol Quotes

Pride will spit in pride's face.

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

When I did the film 'Hear My Voice' a few years ago, I disappeared fully up my own backside for a while. Because I thought my career was taking off, I became a bit of an egomaniac and a pain in the neck. I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

We're all victims of our own hubris at times.

I forgive all personal weaknesses except egomania and pretension.

As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself.

Vanity is my favourite sin.

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

The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

I was hot and I knew it and it went to my head.

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head.

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

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.

Today some actors get a little full of themselves about what they're doing.

If I was sharp in every area, I might be too big-headed or something.

I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

The people I respect the least are the ones that take themselves way too seriously.

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

If you take a loud pride in anything, people will rightly shoot you down.