Presumptuous Quotes

It's presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.

You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people.

Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.

It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.

I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.

I'm not so presumptuous to feel that they're gonna get it right away, get exactly what I have in mind. I hope that they'll enjoy looking at it at any rate, whatever it is. And that's why I started writing stories on my work.

There's one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and - I'm going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself - I think most respect me.

Presumptuous for me to say, but at least - at a minimum - I've been able to influence the direction of the Democratic Party on foreign policy. And I've been relatively - presumptuous to say - relatively successful legislatively in the Senate, being able to win a lot of Republican friends, and being able to cross the aisle.

But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society.

It's most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.