Top Items About Arrogance
Type | Title | Teaser | Author | Views | Rating |
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| Anecdotes | British governor of New York grapples with his self-worth | The American colonies were not like those in other parts of the | root | 126 | |
| Anecdotes | Greatest Living Actor | While testifying in a trial one day, George Arliss described himself as "the world`s greatest living actor." Some time... | Anonymous | 106 | |
| Anecdotes | A violinist complains to Beethoven.. | Beethoven, who believed that he was communing with God while composing, spared no expense in time and effort to attain... | Anonymous | 89 | |
| Anecdotes | Paul Cezanne: Great Ego | Paul Cezanne once owned a parrot. Did the painter teach his bird to speak? Of course. Among its favorite phrases? "Cezanne... | Anonymous | 65 | |
| Anecdotes | Poetic Justice | "At the end of the sixteenth century regular processions were organized around Hereford Cathedral to mark holy occasions. | Anonymous | 61 | |
| Anecdotes | Danton`s Death | Despite his leadership in the early days of the French Revolution and his dedicated Republicanism thereafter, Danton... | Anonymous | 54 | |
| Anecdotes | Thomas Huxley: Darwin`s Bulldog | The disagreement between the supporters of Charles Darwin`s theory of evolution and the Church came to a head at a... | Anonymous | 45 | |
| Anecdotes | Watts Riot? | When (in 1896) the poet and critic Theodore Watts added his mother`s surname(Dunton) to his own, Whistler, unimpressed,... | Anonymous | 44 | |
| Anecdotes | Self-Made Man | One day during his brief stint as a Congressman, Horace Greeley found himself conversing with an arrogant colleague,... | Anonymous | 44 | |
| Anecdotes | Whitty Remark | One day on the set of Mrs. Miniver (1942), Dame May Whitty found herself in a "two-shot" with young Richard Ney.... | Anonymous | 44 |
