Supercilious Quotes

• Los jugadores sudorosos del juego de la vida siempre se divierten más que los espectadores arrogantes.

  William Feather

  Motivacional, Divertido, Jugador

  56 Copiar cita

• Ahora se daba cuenta de la verdad: ese sacrificio no era una compra de libertad. Era como un gran cargo electivo, era como una herencia de poder - para ciertas personas en ciertos momentos un lujo esencial, que no llevaba consigo una garantía sino una responsabilidad, no una seguridad sino un riesgo infinito. Su propio impulso podía arrastrarle a la ruina; el paso de la ola emocional que lo hacía posible podía dejar a quien lo hacía en la cima y seco para siempre en una isla de desesperación... El sacrificio, por su propia naturaleza, era arrogante e impersonal; el sacrificio debía ser eternamente soberbio.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Responsibility, Sacrifice, Emotional

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.280, e-artnow

  25 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Así es como yo entiendo la música. Si puedes tocar el mismo montón de ruido dos veces, es música. Ir más allá es soberbio y pontificador.

  John Lydon

  Play, Noise, Bunch

  17 Copiar cita

• Los niños son prepotentes, soberbios, apasionados, envidiosos, curiosos, egoístas, ociosos, volubles, tímidos, intemperantes, mentirosos y disimuladores; ríen y lloran con facilidad, son excesivos en sus alegrías y penas, y eso por los objetos más insignificantes; no soportan el dolor, pero les gusta infligirlo a los demás; ya son hombres.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Niños, Dolor, Mentirosos

  "Los "Personajes" de Jean de la Bruyère". Libro de Jean de La Bruyère. Traducción de Henri Van Laun, 1885.

  10 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• 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

  Cat, Reflection, Imperfection

  Susanna Clarke (2005). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.636, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

  9 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• You may be the only guy my age I've ever met who knows what bergamot is, much less that it's in Earl Grey tea." "Yes, well," Jace said, with a supercilious look, "I'm not like other guys. Besides," he added, flipping a book off the shelf, "at the Institute we have to take classes in basic medicinal uses for plants. It's required." "I figured all your classes were stuff like Slaughter 101 and Beheading for Beginners." Jace flipped a page. "Very funny, Fray.

  Cassandra Clare

  Book, Class, Guy

  8 Copiar cita

• I am a part of the part that at first was all, part of the darkness that gave birth to the light, that supercilious light which now disputes with Mother Night her ancient rank and space, and yet cannot succeed; no matter how it struggles, it sticks to matter and can't get free. Light flows from substance, makes it beautiful.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Beautiful, Mother, Struggle

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1941). “Goethe's Faust”

  6 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• To expel hunger and thirst there is no necessity of sitting in a palace and submitting to the supercilious brow and contumelious favour of the rich and great there is no necessity of sailing upon the deep or of following the camp What nature wants is every where to be found and attainable without much difficulty whereas require the sweat of the brow for these we are obliged to dress anew j compelled to grow old in the field and driven to foreign mores A sufficiency is always at hand

  Séneca el Joven

  Hands, Sweat, Sailing

  6 Copiar cita

• 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

  People, Groups, May

  CNN obituary, October 17, 1997.

  4 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Parecía salido directamente de la portada de una de esas novelas románticas que ella encargaba en Amazon.com para no tener que avergonzarse ante algún dependiente arrogante de la librería.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Romance, Clerks, Males

  4 Copiar cita