Quotes About Being Smug

#1. When a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce ... in the same individual, we have the best possible condition for the kind of effective genius that gets into the biographical dictionaries.

Neel Burton

#2. Why do people who are good at families have to be smug and assume it is the only way to live. ... Why can't they be blamed for being bad at promiscuity?

Hanif Kureishi

#3. Seems like a lot of my generation as a whole is more concerned with being the cool kid; sarcastic, smug, or just all together impenetrable. So anyway, it's not always comfortable to be like, the dorky, happy girl at the party ... but that's me.

Hayley Williams

#4. I hated the very idea of the eighteenth century, with all those smug men writing tight little couplets and being so dead keen on reason.

Sylvia Plath

#5. He needs to be willing to fight for me dad, but he doesn't want to."

"I think he's doing enough fighting for other people, Sum, maybe he needs someone to fight for him

Chantal Fernando

#6. I got my boots out of the closet, put them on, and buckled a belt with a knife on it around my waist under my robe. Baha-char was the place where you went to find things. Sometimes things found you instead and tried to take your money.

Ilona Andrews

#7. In great troubles, we learn to trust in God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. Being snarky and smug doesn't equate to providing insight, and there's more than one occasion when the filmmakers lose sight of this in their zeal to spread the Gospel According to Maher.

James Berardinelli

#9. I'm not crazy about having lots of time to myself. Whenever I come back from filming away, I immediately want to go and see my friends and my family and re-establish my life. I can fill time when I'm alone, but I love being around other people.

Emilia Fox

#10. I think that great programming is not all that dissimilar to great art. Once you start thinking in concepts of programming it makes you a better person ... as does learning a foreign language, as does learning math, as does learning how to read.

Jack Dorsey

#11. Nothing warms the cockles of the heart more than the smug self-satisfaction of being right.

Val McDermid

#12. My sole focus as far back as I can remember was all about my dream to become a singer.

Sheena Easton