quotes about Smugness

last updated: November 28, 2023

What's wrong with "the new elite?" Forget cultural insularity or smugness. The main problem with the "new elite" is that they're not an elite at all. That is, they aren't particularly smart, or competent.
-- Glenn Reynolds

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San Franciscans have a bond of self-satisfaction bordering on smugness.
-- Herb Caen

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Confidence quickly curdles into arrogance; smarts turn to smugness, charm turns to smarm.
-- Jeffrey Kluger

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There's something uniquely aggravating about the smugness of liberal Hollywood,
-- Matt Stone

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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I worship you, but I loathe marriage. I hate its smugness, its safety, its compromise and the thought of you interfering with my work, hindering me; what would you answer?
-- Virginia Woolf

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“My whole goal was to be able to work in television and film and maintain a normal life, never be in a tabloid.”

Source : "'NCIS' Actress Pauley Perrette's Endless Nightmare Divorce" by Roger Friedman, www.foxnews.com. September 28, 2006.
“It's a crazy soprano, and singing as a man as a woman. But for many years, I was on the road in Chicago as Mary Sunshine, so I can do that. I didn't think there was any way I was going to get it - it was so far out of my comfort-zone.”
“The opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.”

Source : Sun Tzu (2015). “The Art of War”, p.4, Booklassic
“Any mom who tells you that she does it effortlessly is not telling the truth.”
“Aretha with no goals, eternally single & one step soft of heaven/ let it be understood that she owns this melody along with her emotional diplomats & her earth & her musical secrets”
“Golf is not a wrestle with Bogey; it is not a struggle with your mortal foe; it is a physiological, psychological and moral fight with your self; it is a test of mastery over self; and the ultimate and irreducible element of the game is to determine which of the players is the more worthy combatant.”

Source : Arnold Haultain (1912). “The Mystery of Golf”
“The right wing conservatives think itâ€™s a decision that you can be cured with some treatment and religion.//Manmade rewiring of a predisposition//Oh no here we go, America the brave still fears what we don't know//But we paraphrase a book written 3500 years ago, I don't knowâ€¦”
“...It looked very different from the Statue of Liberty, but what did that matter? What was the good of having the statue without the liberty, the freedom to go where one chose if one was held back by one's color? No, I preferred the Eiffel Tower, which made no promises." ~ Josephine Baker, once she had seen the Eiffel Tower”
“Turner has outdone himself; he seems to paint with tinted steam, so evanescent and so airy.”

Source : John E. Thornes, John Constable (1999). “John Constable's Skies: A Fusion of Art and Science”, p.181, A&C Black
“I have a strong opinion that a genuine love of books is one of the greatest blessings of life for man and woman ...”

Source : Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1874). “Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge”, p.175