Smugness Quotes
Collection of top 23 famous quotes about Smugness
Smugness Quotes & Sayings
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Maybe that was the problem," Jacob said softly. "Don't we all need to feel needed? That we'd be missed if we were gone?
— Justina Chen
She didn't use the misery of others to cultivate her own smugness, true, but at least I didn't go about eating all their food.
— Martin Amis
Smugness in ones own self-knowledge is often a signal that you don't know as much as you think you do.
— Erin Wunker
Confidence is important, but if it is not based on a realistic appraisal of who you are, it is mere grandiosity and smugness.
— Robert Greene
If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection.
— Plato
Kindness consistently preoccupies us, and yet most of us are unable to live a life guided by it.
— Adam Phillips
There's two things I gotta do. One is, I gotta update my resume. And then, I have to call my mother.
— David Duchovny
Smugness is the Great Catholic Sin.
— Flannery O'Connor
It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
It was the kind of country that made you feel better about yourself.
— David Halberstam
You unfailingly omnibothersome bitch.
— Scott Lynch
Smugness was an art invented by the race of imps, no matter what cats might claim, so he did it very well indeed,
— Spider Robinson
And then - thwack! - Anne had brought her slate down on Gilbert's head and cracked it - slate not head - clear across.
— L.M. Montgomery
I can say with pride verging on smugness that I've got two very successful shows that assume their audience is very smart.
— Steven Moffat
What matters are those ordinary acts of kindness and of love, not vaulting ambition with its attendant hubris and smugness.
— Michael Dirda
I have yet to find any support in the Bible for an attitude of smugness: Ah, they deserve their punishment; watch them squirm.
— Philip Yancey
A strong pursuit, give no time for the enemy to think, take advantage of victory, uproot him, cut off his escape route.
— Alexander Suvorov
Moral voices can also become sanctimonious bullies.
— Nicholas Kristof