Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude. — Plato
Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors. — John Calvin
It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive. — Friedrich Nietzsche
A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you. — C. S. Lewis
None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves. — Charles Spurgeon
Arrogance is despised by God because no one has the right to feel superior to another when all are equally dependent on Him for everything. — Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi
I hate elitists. I hate conceited people. I hate pompous people. — Neil Cavuto
Arrogance is an exaggeration of the truth. — Phil Heath
It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble. — Jane Austen
Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's. — Bertrand Russell
Knowledge alone makes Christians haughty. Application makes us holy. — Andy Stanley
No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple. — John Ruskin
Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared. a — George S. Clason
When pride and presumption walk before, shame and loss follow very closely. — Louis XI of France
He is indeed the 'Lamb.' There is nothing harsh or haughty or retaliative about Him. — J. Sidlow Baxter
Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. — Joseph Addison
Be not haughty with the humble; be not humble with the haughty. — Jefferson Davis
He who lives upon the fruit of his own labor, escapes the contempt of haughty benefactors. — Saadi Shirazi
People think that I'm haughty and stuck up, but really I'm just very shy. — Laurence Fishburne
Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness. — Kahlil Gibran
Naughty Quotes
I don't watch penalties in my hotel room. I watch naughty videos — Gianluigi Buffon
My girlfriend told me that she was seeing another man. I told her to rub her eyes. — Emo Philips
It's weird, because usually if you're British and you go to America you play baddies; but I play naughty people here and goodies in America. — Paul Bettany
Just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't mean I'm naughty. — Britney Spears
Claudia... you've been a very very naughty little girl. — Anne Rice
I am in love with girls that are bad and naughty and badass, and a little selfish, but I like to watch from a respectful distance! — Dreama Walker
A girl's legs are her best friends...but even the best of friends must part. — Redd Foxx
A very pleasant surprise was that items I thought were naughty but that I enjoyed immensely, like strong coffee, dark chocolate, nuts, high fat yoghurt, wine and cheese, are actually likely to be healthy for me and my microbes. — Tim Spector
I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse. — Diane Arbus
I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do -- that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse. — Diane Arbus
A poor but humble man who gives nothing to charity is preferrable to a rich but haughty man who does. — Nachman of Breslov
... some people cannot bear the truth, no matter how tactfully it is told. No doubt the haughty, the tyrannical, the unmerciful, the impure and the fomentors of discord take a fierce exception to the Sermon on the Mount. — Mary Church Terrell
Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already. — Jean De La Bruyere
A woman of haughty and fierce carriage, of a nimble wit and active spirit, a very voluble tongue, more bold than a man. — John Winthrop
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
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
If you are an ardent reader, seek not brilliant and erudite texts; otherwise the demon of haughtiness will strike your heart. But like a wise bee that gathers honey from flowers, so also through your reading obtain healing for your soul. — Ephrem the Syrian
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
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death. — Edith Wharton
We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit humbly under its judgment instead. — John Stott
And when your soul becometh great, then doth it become haughty, and in your sublimity there is wickedness. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Deep is the sea, and deep is hell, but pride mineth deeper; it is coiled as a poisonous worm about the foundations of the soul. — Martin Farquhar Tupper
Cats are possessed of a shy, retiring nature, cajoling, haughty, and capricious, difficult to fathom. They reveal themselves only to certain favored individuals, and are repelled by the faintest suggestion of insult or even by the most trifling deception. — Pierre Loti
Use humility to make the enemy haughty. Tire them by flight. Cause division among them. When they are unprepared, attack and make your move when they do not expect it. — Sun Tzu
First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences, gestures, attitudes, a burning phrase with no context. — Elizabeth Bowen
Victory is by nature insolent and haughty. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. — Egyptian Proverbs
Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man. — Joseph Joubert
Men hate the haughty of heart who will not be the friend of every man. — Euripides
Women [in ancient Rome] were condemned to the perpetual tutelage of parents, husbands, or guardians; a sex created to please and obey was never supposed to have attained the age of reason and experience. Such, at least, was the stern and haughty spirit of the ancient law . . . — Edward Gibbon
Waitresses, soldiers, rickshaw drivers, old ladies selling vegetables - my father would schmooze anybody. He was Clintonesque before the word existed. And, of course, it paid dividends. Ill-tempered guards at the most notorious border crossings waved him through with cheery smiles. Haughty maitre d's fawned over him. — Scott Anderson
Fear not the proud and the haughty; fear rather him who fears God. — Saadi Shirazi
Life is a system of relations rather than a positive and independent existence; and he who would be happy himself and make others happy must carefully preserve these relations. He cannot stand apart in surly and haughty egoism; let him learn that he is as much dependent on others as others are on him. — George Augustus Henry Sala
To make the cunning artless, tame the rude, subdue the haughty, shake the undaunted soul; yea, put a bridle in the lion's mouth, and lead him forth as a domestic cur,--these are the triumphs of all-powerful beauty. — Joanna Baillie
Some men who know that they are great are so very haughty withal and insufferable that their acquaintance discover their greatness only by the tax of humility which they are obliged to pay as the price of their friendship. — Charles Caleb Colton
Many persons, when exalted, assume an insolent humility, who behaved before with an insolent haughtiness. — William Shenstone
As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward. — Peter Greenaway
Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself — Samuel Johnson
Do not try to entrap others with your haughty knowledge. To your wide surprise, they will entrap you with their lengthy ignorance. — Sri Chinmoy
Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty. — Mark Twain
The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others. — Jose Saramago
It is the attitude of the American white man that is making him stand condemned today before the eyes of the entire dark world and even before the eyes of the Europeans. It is his attitude, his haughty, holier-than-thou attitude. — Malcolm X
Disturbers are to be rebuked, the low spirited to be encouraged, the infirm to be supported, objectors confuted, the treacherous guarded against, the unskilled taught, the lazy aroused, the contentious restrained, the haughty repressed, the poor relieved, the oppressed liberated, the good approved, the evil borne with, and all are to be loved! — Saint Augustine
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