General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he…

“A session of boasting won't attract any real friends.  It will set you up on a pedestal, however, making you a clearer target.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

He is indeed the 'Lamb.' There is nothing harsh or haughty or retaliative about Him.

— J. Sidlow Baxter

But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord; nor…

— Edward Gibbon

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

— John Ruskin

The child--a skilled actor with a hundred masks: a different one for his mother, father, grandmother or grandfather, for a stern or lenient teacher,…

— Janusz Korczak

When the lion had eaten its fill, and the jackals had taken their share, the ants came along and finished up the meat from…

— Idries Shah

“She was one of those women of good family who no longer exist, elegant, distinguished, and haughty, whose pallor and thinness seem to say,…

— Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

Waitresses, soldiers, rickshaw drivers, old ladies selling vegetables - my father would schmooze anybody. He was Clintonesque before the word existed. And, of course,…

— Scott Anderson

“Inside the buff and haughty lurks the rough and extra-naughty. I like James more by the minute.”

— Elise Alden

Sure as the most certain sure … plumb in the uprights, well entreated, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical,…

— Walt Whitman

... some people cannot bear the truth, no matter how tactfully it is told. No doubt the haughty, the tyrannical, the unmerciful, the impure…

— Mary Church Terrell

Some men who know that they are great are so very haughty withal and insufferable that their acquaintance discover their greatness only by the…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Regardless of the gender of the highest wage earner, the balance of power in the relationship will suffer if the higher earner uses control…

— Marian Keyes

The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning-place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Contrary to far too popular a belief, style, fashion, and fabulousness are not synonymous with stank, haughty, and self-aggrandizing.

— Amanda Seales