Haughty People Quotes

#1. Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.

Joseph Joubert

#2. Oh, you don't want to hear all my sad stories. I can't even bear to tell them anymore. Screw the past, right?

Gabrielle Zevin

#3. Where there are repeated wars, the people are weakened; when they score repeated victories, rulers become haughty. Let haughty rulers command weakened people, and rare is the nation that will not perish as a result.

Sun Tzu

#4. General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation.

Chief Joseph

#5. We don't really know anything. Those who accept this are more likely to learn something.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#6. Some people cannot bear the truth, no matter how tactfully it is told. No doubt the haughty, the tyrannical, the unmerciful, the impure and the fomentors of discord take a fierce exception to the Sermon on the Mount.

Mary Church Terrell

#7. There's nothing like living a long time to create a depth and soulfulness in your music.

Bonnie Raitt

#8. He has personality problems beyond the dreams of analysts.

Douglas Adams

#9. People think that I'm haughty and stuck up, but really I'm just very shy.

Laurence Fishburne

#10. Ironically, I am reliably informed that Michael McIntyre doesn't actually have a "man drawer", and invented the concept in order to ridicule ordinary people, for whom he has nothing but haughty contempt.

Stewart Lee

#11. Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature.

Camille Paglia