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Don't feel happy at me.
I AM GOING TO BE FURIOUSLY HAPPY, OUT OF SHEER SPITE.
Only vulgar people boast about how happy they are
She didn't use the misery of others to cultivate her own smugness, true, but at least I didn't go about eating all their food.
Be happy, be joyful.
Too excited to be genuinely happy
I've got such a disgusting, wide, smug grin on my face all the time that my friends just want to slap me. I've never been so happy.
I am satisfied: miserable wretch! you have determined to live, and I am satisfied.
When you win, don't swagger. When you lose, don't sulk.
bitter is a bad way to live!
Who walks around proud of things they've done? That's an obnoxious quality.
My ego is sated.
Everyone has a right to be a little happy, asshole.
Nothing warms the cockles of the heart more than the smug self-satisfaction of being right.
If you must belittle others to make yourself feel better, then you should do silently, in your own mind, where only you will suffer from your poison.
There is no mat space for malcontents or dissenters. One must neither celebrate insanely when he wins, nor sulk when he loses. He accepts victory professionally, humbly; he hates defeat, but makes no poor display of it.
I can be arrogant, I can be insufferable.
What might once have been called whining is now exalted as a process of asserting selfhood; self-absorption is regarded as a form of self-expression ...
Be a harsh critic of your own wins.
He looks about as happy as a penguin in a microwave.
Nobody's just arrogant. I've met people who are embattled and dismissive, but when you get to know them, you find that they're vulnerable - that that hauteur or standoffishiness is because they're pedaling furiously underneath.
Don't sulk. For someone with all the grace and coordination of a pregnant wildebeest, you did great.
You invented the bitterness. I pity you. You suck.
The repercussions of one person living in stubborn gladness are incalculable.
Nothing's amusing that isn't spiteful.
There's something uniquely aggravating about the smugness of liberal Hollywood.
You cannot say that you are happy when you don't win.
I have been feeling very much lately that cheerful insecurity is what our Lord asks of us.
Arrogance covers up insecurities.
If you look up schadenfreude on Wikipedia, you'll see a picture of me with a snide smile on my face.
It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!
I have the benefit of experience which tells me that sulking solves nothing
He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
It's so funny you judge me arrogant after I succeeded.
You didn't help me at all when I was so poor and needy.
It is sufficient for you that the one who envies you is distressed at the time of your joy.
I'm happy; I'm a happy person.
It is horrid to smirk.
It is not arrogant or egotistical to feel good inside. You had nothing to do with it. It's simply the honest response to clearly perceived Reality.
Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
Some can be happy.
I'm not going to hide the fact that I am a happy person.
Unhappiness does make people look stupid.
Ah! Those strange people who have the courage to be unhappy! Are they unhappy, by the way?
How to be happy: Ignore people who think they know more about you than you do.
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one.
I get accused of having a haughty smugness. I have a lopsided mouth. I can't help it. I was born with it. It looks as if I am smirking. I have had my publicist tell me, 'Don't do that smile on the red carpet.' I'm, like, 'That's my smile.'
As pissed as a fart in a vacuum cleaner.
It's only arrogance if you're wrong.
Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
Petting the cat makes you feel better, Fennel asserted smugly.
The arrogance is not greatness but swelling; and the swelling seems big but it's not healthy.
A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.
I want to win, so sometimes I get a little overanxious.
I am an expert in the world of the supremely happy because I am happy. I've never met anybody as happy as I am - that, in itself, should make you unhappy.
You are happiest when you are most humble. You are most miserable when you are egotistical.
Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.
Do you think I leapt at this pessimism, grasped it as sweetly smug superior thing.
There are very few of us that do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary
I am a music snob, and proud of it. I'm a New Yorker; smugness is my birthright.
Happy are those who find fault with themselves instead of finding fault with others.
Congratulations is the civility of envy.
Self-deprecating or arrogant, it's all selfish. Hard as it is, life's better when you spend more time on the rest of the world
Nothing frustrates people more than a cocky guy who's still winning.
Don't whine ... laugh.
Always the tone of surpise.
If you let pride stop you, you will hate life
I am now scowling."
"You are. And its adorable. But only in small doses."
"Well, we cannot all be ridiculously jolly like you."
"Ah, but we should.
Someone who is self assured celebrates the accomplishments of others.
An arrogant laughs at repentance.
One must dare to be happy.
You're pretty smug, Lord Ares, for a guy who runs from Cupid statues.
Negative self assertions are like weeds in the garden of your life. Cleanse your garden of any such weeds.
If you feel deserve to judge the arrogant,
it's a sign that you're so far of humbleness.
There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen.
Don't be bitter, be better.
Winning and losing are both very temporary things. Having done one or the other, you move ahead. Gloating over a victory or sulking over a loss is a good way to stand still.
We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves
I have learned to be happy by calming my ego.
I am number one in the world, so I have the right to be arrogant
Pride is about the ugliest trait somebody can have.
The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
Petty mind mocks.
People like that would far rather be right than happy.
If one can't be happy, one must be amused ...
The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think.
Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy, tormented face.
People express their arrogance in their failed expectations.
I picked up my camera and held it at arm's length and took a picture of myself not caring. I called it: Glory Doesn't Care.
Who's happy? Happy is just what people think they are when they can't find anything to bitch about.
I loathe the happiness of all these people who don't know they're unhappy.
Hypocrite sneers.
You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity and the sour sound of whining.
The proud hate pride in others.
Nothing in this world makes me arrogant as much as catching you staring at me.
Every time I think you've reached the limits of arrogance, you show me new heights. Truly, your egotism is like the Universe - ever expanding.
Get the better of yourself - this is the best kind of victory.
If you have the choice between humble and cocky, go with cocky. There's always time to be humble later, once you've been proven horrendously, irrevocably wrong.
I'm a pretty happy person, to be honest with you.