Overweening Quotes

The overweening self-respect of conceited men relieves others from the duty of respecting them at all. - Henry Ward Beecher

The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas. Or, as Emerson insisted, the development of consciousness, consciousness, consciousness. - Ralph Ellison

Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance. - Alistair Cooke

[Cato's privatization effort was aimed from the start not just at dismantling Social Security but also at making major inroads against what it considered an overweening central government.] Social Security, ... is the linchpin of the welfare state. - David Boaz