Then why should he mind so furiously when the least little thing reflects upon him, or on anything or anybody connected with him ?" Eugene patted her hand.

"That's one of the greatest puzzles of human vanity, dear; and I don't pretend to know the answer.

In all my life, the most arrogant people that I've known have been the most sensitive.
The people who have done the most in contempt of other people's opinion, and who consider themselves the highest above it, have been the most furious if it went against them.

Arrogant and domineering people can't stand the least, lightest, faintest breath of criticism.

It just kills them." "Papa, do you think George is arrogant and domineering ?" "Oh, he's still only a boy," said Eugene consolingly.