Absent Quote by Herman Melville

“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

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

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

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

... 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

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

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

— Elise Alden

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

“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

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

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

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

— John Ruskin