"Self-confident" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... complacency will a young parson deduce false conclusions from misunderstood texts, and then threaten us with all the penalties of Hades if we neglect to comply with the injunctions he has given us! Yes, my too self-confident juvenile friend, I do believe in those mysteries which are so common in your mouth; I do believe in the unadulterated word which you hold there in your hand; but you must pardon me if, in some things, ...
— Barchester Towers • Anthony Trollope
... amorous possibilities, Chavernay came daintily across the bridge, very young, very self-confident, very impudent, very much enjoying himself. As he neared the Inn he looked about him nonchalantly, and, seeing that no one was in sight, he stooped and caught up a pebble from the roadway and flung it dexterously enough against the window above the Inn porch. Then he slipped, smiling ...
— The Duke's Motto - A Melodrama • Justin Huntly McCarthy
... the sudden lapse on the part of this extraordinary and self-confident young person into the terminology of the ...
— From a Bench in Our Square • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... for one so self-confident as the young Irishman—a pause like that of a man grown suddenly doubtful, timid, distrustful. His hand was actually on the latch when, to Thor's surprise, he wheeled away, returning to his "team" with head bent and stride slackened thoughtfully. By the time he had mounted ...
— The Side Of The Angels - A Novel • Basil King
... Self-confident to presumption, he took for his inspirations the merest impulses, and considerably marred the effect of his unquestionably grand genius by gross haste and carelessness. He was a successful man in his day, as so energetic and unscrupulous ...
— The Old Masters and Their Pictures - For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art • Sarah Tytler
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