| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 356fcd9 | Smugness is the Great Catholic Sin. | smugness pride sin | Flannery O'Connor | |
| a5e3620 | I flash a fake smile of my own, refraining from telling her what I'm really thinking: that it's an unwise karmic move to go around feeling superior to other mothers. Because before she knows it, her little angel could become a tattooed teenager hiding joints in her designer handbag and doling out blow jobs in the backseat of her BMW. | smugness parents-and-children | Emily Giffin | |
| 3c0c7de | In what way am I any better? She is smug. I am cynical. She is puffed-up. I am punctured. I watch her gamely finding the energy to thrash about on life's greasy surface, while I lie paralysed, croaking about another life I think I can see. | life smugness | Jeanette Winterson |