Haughty Quotes

44 quotes by 41 authors

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,… — Elizabeth Bowen
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… — Sun Tzu
Men hate the haughty of heart who will not be the friend of every man. — Euripides
Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. — Joseph Addison
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… — John Stott
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,… — Jean de la Bruyere
Victory is by nature insolent and haughty. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Said one oyster to a neighboring oyster, "I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round and I am in distress."… — Khalil Gibran
I was recently asked what it takes to become a writer. Three things, I answered: first, one must cultivate incompetence at almost every other form… — Joseph Epstein
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… — John Stott
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
The appointment of Jesus to be the Savior of the world was contested by one of the other sons of God. He was called Lucifer,… — Milton R. Hunter
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… — W. S. Gilbert
The starred and stately nights seemed haughty dames in jewelled velvets, nursing at home in lonely pride, the memory of their absent conquering Earls, the… — Herman Melville
Lo, the most excellent sun so calm and haughty, The violet and purple morn with just-felt breezes, The gentle soft-born measureless light, The miracle spreading… — Walt Whitman
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
Knowledge alone makes Christians haughty. Application makes us holy. — Andy Stanley
Sure as the most certain sure .... plumb in the uprights, well entreated, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I… — Walt Whitman
Like the archers of Agincourt, John O'Neal and the 254 Swiftboat Veterans took down their own haughty Frenchman. — Ann Coulter
The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact… — George Bernard Shaw

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