He often spoke aloud to himself now, or hummed, without ever noticing it, as if ignoring an old companion who always said the same things.

Theobald ignored him. He could be deaf when he chose; he seemed to find it particularly difficult to hear the word “No.”

If someone is going out of his way to ignore you, he is not ignoring you, he is obsessed by you.

Man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance.

All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

No doubt they would tolerate him now for the Professor’s sake; but who would not rather be ignored than tolerated?

he found the idea of someone who was not only privileged, but was also sorry for himself because he thought the world didn’t really understand the problems of privileged people, deeply obnoxious.

Of course he wasn’t listening to what I said but to all of his imagined resonances of what I said.

He had never said as much before, and I must admit that his words gave me keen pleasure, for I had often been piqued by his indifference to my admiration and to the attempts which I had made to give publicity to his methods. I was proud, too, to think that I had so far mastered his system as to apply it in a way which earned his approval.

Of a rich man who was niggardly he said, "That man does not own his estate, but his estate owns him."

He was so arrogant that he pointed me with fingers and said he is the station commander, and I am going to do what he says; he got his ways of doing things, and I am going to listen to him

He was so arrogant that he spoke of himself in the plural.

He learned not to mind the silences.

James Joyce seemed like the most arrogant man who ever lived, had both his eyes wide open and great faculty of speech, but what he say, I knew not what.