The proud are ever most provoked by pride.

With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Cyphel knew exactly how he felt about her as well — it was there in her expression whenever they spoke that beguiling combination of…

— Alastair Reynolds

Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars

— Anonymous

“I am a mage,” she replied with every ounce of haughtiness three years in a competitive doctoral program had taught her. “We bend the…

— Rachel Aaron

“Those who remarked in the countenance of this young hero a dissolute audacity mingled with extreme haughtiness ... could not yet deny to his…

— Sir Walter Scott

Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness.

— Anonymous

If you are an ardent reader, seek not brilliant and erudite texts; otherwise the demon of haughtiness will strike your heart. But like a…

— Ephrem the Syrian

Some people are all quality; you would think they are made up of nothing but title and genealogy. The stamp of dignity defaces in…

— Roger L'Estrange

It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!

— William Shakespeare

“Margaret could not help her looks; but the short curled upper lip, the round, massive up-turned chin, the manner of carrying her head, her…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

Pride is innate in beauty, and haughtiness is the companion of the fair.

— Ovid

If one avoids haughtiness to the utmost extent and is exceedingly humble, he is termed a saint, and this is the standard of saintliness.

— Maimonides

“Cherubs fan our foolish fires, filling hearts with mad desires. They prick our pride and haughtiness with quick, angelic naughtiness.”

— John Biccard

Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes…

— David Hume