Top 26 Quotes About Supercilious

#1. I feel myself the inheritor of a great background of people. Just who, precisely, they were, I have never known. I might be part Negro, might be part Jew, part Muslim, part Irish. So I can't afford to be supercilious about any group of people because I may be that people.

James A. Michener

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#2. This fierce basilisk, this ungrateful, cruel, supercilious wretch, will neither seek, serve, own, nor follow you in any shape whatever.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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#3. Sacrifice by its very nature was arrogant and impersonal; sacrifice should be eternally supercilious. Weep not for me but for thy children.

F Scott Fitzgerald

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#4. You're a superCILIOUS cock SUCKER. You know that."
"IT TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE.

Giorge Leedy

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#5. In Henry Adams, I discovered not only the prototype of the modern thinker but also someone who is more interesting: a viper-toothed, puling, supercilious crank, thwarted in ambition, aging gracelessly, mad at the cosmos, and ashamed of his own jejune ideals. He is nevertheless very dear to me.

P. J. O'Rourke

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#6. He shut his mouth again and assumed a supercilious expression; this he wore for the remainder of the night, as if he regularly attended houses where young ladies were raised from the dead and considered this particular example to have been, upon the whole, a rather dull affair.

Susanna Clarke

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#7. He was amused and gratified to find that he had the power to annoy his oblivious, supercilious hostess, if he could not impress her; though he would have preferred to impress her. He

Virginia Woolf

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#8. Such nonsense!" declared Dr Greysteel. "Whoever heard of cats doing anything useful!"
"Except for staring at one in a supercilious manner," said Strange. "That has a sort of moral usefulness, I suppose, in making one feel uncomfortable and encouraging sober reflection upon one's imperfections.

Susanna Clarke

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#9. Perhaps our supercilious disgust with existence is a cover for a secret disgust with ourselves: we have botched and bungled our lives, and we cast the blame upon the "environment," or the "world," which have no tongues to utter a defense.

Will Durant

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#10. Here's how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it's music. To go beyond that is supercilious and pontificating.

John Lydon

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#11. Aware of how often she hides her good qualities because she is afraid of being misunderstood or mocked, she accuses herself of being uncharitable, supercilious,

Francine Prose

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#12. He looked as if he'd stepped straight off the cover of one of those romance novels she ordered from Amazon so she didn't have to be embarassed by some supercilious male clerk in the bookstore.

Karen Marie Moning

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#13. The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors.

John Updike

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#14. The sweaty players in the game of life always have more fun than the supercilious spectators.

William Feather

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#15. when they found that he was not supercilious they told him long yarns of the distant journeys of their youth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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#16. You've only talked like that since you became a horrid what's-his-name. You know what I mean. What do you call a man who wants to embrace the chimney-sweep?" "A saint," said Father Brown. "I think," said Sir Leopold, with a supercilious smile, "that Ruby means a Socialist.

G.K. Chesterton

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#17. Guy Carpenter frowned and came into the drawing room through the window. He had a long face like a horse, he was pale and looked rather supercilious. His manner was pompous. Hercule Poirot found him unattractive.

Agatha Christie

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#18. Indeed, the U.N. is the main Soviet espionage center in this country.

Jack Anderson

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#19. Knowing themselves to be faultless, they make it their mission to detect the myriad faults in others, against which they wage incessant tongue.

Heron Carvic

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#20. The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

Clint Eastwood

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#21. Freedom is like a man who kills himself
Each night, an incessant butcher, whose knife
Grows sharp in blood.

Wallace Stevens

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#22. Life is a mirror. You get what you see. If you project anger into the mirror, that is what you get back. If you project joy into the mirror, it reflects joy right back to you. Failure for failure. Success for success. What you project is what is reflected back to you.

Robert G. Allen

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#23. I love my hair. But I don't even remember my original color because I started bleaching it so young. I was, like, 11.

Nicki Minaj

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#24. The entertainment options for young people are a lot broader now, and the quality of films is slumping a little bit.

Peter Jackson

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#25. It's up to you to make your dreams real.

Beverly K. Bachel

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#26. I just want people to respect the privacy of my relatives in Taiwan ... They need to live their lives as well.

Jeremy Lin

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