Quotes About Smug People

#1. I don't care about the little guy. I just hate the big guy. I hate big smug people who think they can get away with things.

Lee Child

#2. Aaron Sorkin is why people hate liberals. He's a smug, condescending know-it-all who isn't as smart as he thinks he is.

Alex Pareene

#3. That's what self-discovery seems to mean to most people. You're going to beat yourself up. You're going to reduce what you're supposed to be and do to a set of rules so you can defy them, or so you can perform them and feel smug.

Frederick Lenz

#4. Every time you compete, try harder to improve on your last performance. Give nothing short of your very best effort.

Elgin Baylor

#5. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#6. Doing improv really got me started in my whole career.

Lauren Lapkus

#7. When will women begin to have the first glimmer that above all other loyalties is the loyalty toTruth, i.e., to yourself, that husband, children, friends and countryare as nothing to that.

Alice James

#8. You two start on home, Daisy,' said Tom. 'In Mr Gatsby's car.'
She looked at Tom, alarmed now, but he insisted with magnanimous scorn.
'Go on. He won't annoy you. I think he realises that his presumptuous little flirtation is over.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#9. One thing lots of Christians do have in common is that they can't help coming across as smug. This winds lots of people up, particularly because famous Christians pronounce on the life of the poor from their very lovely affluent homes filled with their very lovely families and attractive pets.

Jo Brand

#10. Sometimes, I thought pity was the most heartless thing in the world. All it did was make people feel superior to you, happy, safe, and smug in the knowledge that someone had it worse than they did.

Jennifer Estep

#11. Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them?

Madeleine L'Engle

#12. I'm tired, my head hurts, and the last thing I want is to play referee between you two. Get over it. She storms off, unable to stop the smug smile stretching her face at their stunned silence. The way people respond to her demands - all flabbergasted and slack-jawed - will never get old.

Laura Kreitzer

#13. They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations, however, God gets hardly a mention.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#14. I am more than willing to be judged by the people you claim to represent. I will let them decide what price I should pay. But please do not sit there with that smug look on your face and expect me to regret the decisions I have made. Because, sir, the truth is I don't.

Jack Bauer

#15. I was in the back part of the bunker, so I had to carry the whole bunker. It was probably 20 yards.

Trent Dilfer

#16. We're reminders that people shouldn't feel too smug. That what you think you own, you don't. That life can change just like that." Fadwa snapped her fingers.

Kelly Link

#17. Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Edouard Herriot

#18. The only thing over which we have any control whatsoever is the very next decision we make.

Mary Balogh

#19. There's a fine line between marketing and grand theft.

Scott Adams

#20. Twitter is about the democratization of access to a platform that allows anyone in the world - who has a mobile phone and access to SMS - to have a voice and be heard.

Shailesh Rao

#21. The smug complacency of technology adverts disguises a pretty mixed picture, with too many people not connected, too many passive users of technologies designed for interactive, and far too much talk about empowerment but far too little action to make it happen.

Geoff Mulgan

#22. America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.

Norman Mailer

#23. I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing.

Inge De Bruijn

#24. Ove couldn't give a damn about people jogging. What he can't understand is why they have to make such a big thing of it. With those smug smiles on their faces, as if they were out there curing pulmonary emphysema.

Fredrik Backman

#25. Here every bird and fish knew its course. Every tree had its own place upon this earth. Only man had lost his way.

Margaret Craven

#26. I ain't no Psy, Ms. Aleine, but even us dumb animals know when two people start exchanging thoughts, something's going on."
She narrowed her eyes at his smug tone. "It was a coincidence."
"Baby, when I think about my body, I don't focus on my cock.

Nalini Singh

#27. For me, faith is more about aspiration than complacency - the smug satisfaction that other people find distasteful.

Tom Hollander

#28. 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

#29. The people of a city blessed with all the good things nature has can grow smug about who they are, can find complacency in livability polls, as if we did a lot to deserve it.

Robin Cody

#30. I can stand here today, leader of the Labour Party, Prime Minister, and say to the British people: you have never had it so ... prudent.

Tony Blair

#31. It's important we win and because of the players we have we should win some matches in style.

Jamie Redknapp

#32. Occasionally I am smitten with an acute case of Smug. It can happen to anyone, but it happens most often to people who think they've been especially clever.

Kevin Hearne

#33. I think that London is very much like that. I find there's humour in the air and people are interesting. And I think that it's a place which is constantly surprising. The worst thing about it? I think it can be smug and aggressive.

Colin Firth