Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.
Pete Townshend

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every Maryland family wants financial security, schools that work, quality healthcare, safer neighborhoods, and ever-expanding economic opportunity. These are the building blocks of a superior quality of life.
Robert. L. Ehrlich

Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.
Georg Simmel

Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.
Mason Cooley

Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.
Walt Whitman

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.
Sophia Loren

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
John D. Rockefeller

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
John D. Rockefeller

Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.
Cal Thomas

Having marshalled the men in battle order, as shown in the first diagram, you will observe that each party has two ranks of men, on the first of which stand the superior Pieces, and on the next the eight Pawns.
Howard Staunton

He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.
Erica Jong

History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.
Vladimir Putin

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
H. L. Mencken

Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.
William Shenstone

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.
Jeanette Winterson

I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.
Edward Gibbon

I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards.
Richard Cobden

I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends.
Kazuo Ishiguro

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
Hippolyte Taine