Thomas More Quotes

Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.

Lustre of man walking proud beneath the sky diminishes to nothing and goes unregarded.

Often times, the more power and prestige a person achieves, the more arrogant a person can become.

I had the erroneous conviction that all of history tended toward my birth and would diminish into chaos or inconsequence after I was gone. When you realize that's not so, the proper humility is to defer.

Anyone who thinks they're indispensible is fooling themselves.

In the fallen there is danger of pride and vainglory, since they prefer their own judgment to the judgment of everyone else, usurping what is not their own by setting themselves up as judges in their own cause when the rightful judge is their superior.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

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

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

Vanity is but the surface.

Vanity is my favourite sin.

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

Pride is about the ugliest trait somebody can have.

Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.

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

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.

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

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

Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.

On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be.

The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why, maybe it's the testosterone - I think it's narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer.