What makes a person arrogant? Money, power, beauty, fame? Sometimes none of these.
Arrogance is conceit -- a self-aggrandizement of the worth a person feels about her/himself and a pretention that their own thoughts, needs, beliefs or stature somehow are superior in quality to anyone else's. Arrogance and egocentrism go hand in hand, therefore the person who has both of these unfortunate qualities cannot even begin consciously to realize how they appear to others. Ultimately, the arrogant person's undue degree of self-importance results in a feeling of pity (not jealousy) from those witnesses who stick around long enough to form an opinion.
People who worship only themselves eventually get a hard, matte-finished look, like cold marble statues. And observers tend to visit them only once.
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