Haughty Quotes

Quotations list about haughty, arrogance and arrogant citing John Ruskin, Egyptian Proverbs and Walt Whitman

  • No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

    — John Ruskin
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  • Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

    — Egyptian Proverbs
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  • Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

    — Walt Whitman
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  • None are more haughty than a common place person raised to power.

    — Proverbs
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  • Nothing in the world is more haughty than a man of moderate capacity when once raised to power.

    — Baron Wessenberg
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  • I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.

    — W. S. Gilbert
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  • Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the custom, to spare the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low.

    — Virgil
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  • Fashon is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism: it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and fantastical, all in a breath -- tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.

    — William Hazlitt
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  • 'All Mr. Pitt's sentiments were liberal and elevated. His ruling passion was an unbounded ambition, which, when supported by great abilities and crowned with great success, make (sic) what the world calls a great man. He was haughty, imperious, impatient of contradiction, and over-bearing; qualities which too often accompany, but always clog, great ones

    — Philip Dormer Stanhope
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  • Every great house is full of haughty servants.

    — Juvenal
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  • Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.

    — Marcus Tullius Cicero
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  • General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation.

    — Chief Joseph
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  • Before a downfall the heart is haughty, but humility comes before honor.  

    — King Solomon
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