“A session of boasting won't attract any real friends. It will set you up on a pedestal, however, making you a clearer… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
He is indeed the 'Lamb.' There is nothing harsh or haughty or retaliative about Him. — J. Sidlow Baxter Copy Share Image
But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The child--a skilled actor with a hundred masks: a different one for his mother, father, grandmother or grandfather, for a stern or… — Janusz Korczak Copy Share Image
When the lion had eaten its fill, and the jackals had taken their share, the ants came along and finished up the… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“She was one of those women of good family who no longer exist, elegant, distinguished, and haughty, whose pallor and thinness seem… — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
Waitresses, soldiers, rickshaw drivers, old ladies selling vegetables - my father would schmooze anybody. He was Clintonesque before the word existed. And,… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
Sure as the most certain sure .... plumb in the uprights, well entreated, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
... some people cannot bear the truth, no matter how tactfully it is told. No doubt the haughty, the tyrannical, the unmerciful,… — Mary Church Terrell Copy Share Image
Some men who know that they are great are so very haughty withal and insufferable that their acquaintance discover their greatness only… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Regardless of the gender of the highest wage earner, the balance of power in the relationship will suffer if the higher earner… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Contrary to far too popular a belief, style, fashion, and fabulousness are not synonymous with stank, haughty, and self-aggrandizing. — Amanda Seales Copy Share Image
We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit… — John Stott Copy Share Image
Disturbers are to be rebuked, the low spirited to be encouraged, the infirm to be supported, objectors confuted, the treacherous guarded against,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
How shall we praise the magnificence of the dead, The great man humbled, the haughty brought to dust? — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
And when your soul becometh great, then doth it become haughty, and in your sublimity there is wickedness. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Yiddish mentality is not haughty. It does not take victory for granted. It does not demand and command but it muddles… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
It is the attitude of the American white man that is making him stand condemned today before the eyes of the entire… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Do not try to entrap others with your haughty knowledge. To your wide surprise, they will entrap you with their lengthy ignorance. — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A poor but humble man who gives nothing to charity is preferrable to a rich but haughty man who does. — Nachman of Breslov Copy Share Image
We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
