Top 32 Quotes About Haughtiness

#1. Over the whole, a young lady presided, whose gloomy haughtiness as she surveyed the street, announced a deep-seated grievance against society, and an implacable determination to be avenged.

Charles Dickens

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#2. 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

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#3. He was aware he did not love her. He had married her because he liked her haughtiness, her seriousness, her strength, and also because of some vanity on his part, but as she kissed him for the first time he was sure there would be obstacle to their inventing true love.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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#4. 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 prickly lot.

Stephen Jay Gould

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#5. I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.

Edmund Burke

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#6. Nothing could be more gracefully majestic than his step and manner, had they not been marked by a predominant air of haughtiness, easily acquired by the exercise of unresisted authority.

Walter Scott

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#7. It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#8. Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#9. The best manners are stained by haughtiness.

Claudius Claudianus

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#10. The haughtiness suddenly fell from Hamster's face. He looked at us fearfully for a long second.

James Patterson

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#11. Many persons, when exalted, assume an insolent humility, who behaved before with an insolent haughtiness.

William Shenstone

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#12. And I imagine that, though cold and haughty in her general demeanor, and even exacting in her requirements, she has strong affections for those who can reach them ...

Anne Bronte

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

John Biccard

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#14. The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.

Jose Saramago

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#15. You can't train a monkey to show character in times of peril, to be selfless, to be kind when there's no percentage in it, or to exercise pride without haughtiness.

Michael Reisig

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#16. Haughtiness is the high heel shoe of the low men!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#17. When pride and presumption walk before, shame and loss follow very closely.

Louis XI Of France

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#18. Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness.

Kahlil Gibran

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#19. ... You proved to value love and care
Over the riches of your world
Despite your haughtiness, so rare,
And cruelty and blood, so cold. ...
... And you have shown
Your love for him deserves to be
And we return you to your throne,
Vampire Queen you used to be. ...

Tatyana K. Varenko

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#20. If we see pride among people who have no idea about Dharma, it is understandable. However, if afflictive emotions and haughtiness are present among Dharma practitioners, it is great disgrace to practice

Dalai Lama

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

Leo Tolstoy

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#22. Consider an achievement accidental if it is not coupled with modesty. Because if the achiever had endeavoured for it, it would certainly have killed their pride.

Raheel Farooq

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#23. polite with dignity, affable without formality, distant without haughtiness, grave without austerity,

Ron Chernow

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#24. Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude.

Plato

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#25. There were choices, and then there were choices. People could say "everything is a choice" with as much haughtiness and superiority as they liked, but that didn't mean desperate people wouldn't take a third option if they could.

Rhiannon Thomas

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#26. I am a mage," she replied with every ounce of haughtiness three years in a competitive doctoral program had taught her. "We bend the rules of the universe on a daily basis. Presumptuousness is the base line for entry.

Rachel Aaron

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

Ovid

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#28. Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility.

David Hume

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#29. The proud are ever most provoked by pride.

William Cowper

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

William Shakespeare

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#31. Belittling others is no pastime for those convinced of their own standing. There is terror behind haughtiness. It takes a punishing impression of our own inferiority to leave others feeling that they aren't good enough for us.

Alain De Botton

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#32. Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself

Samuel Johnson

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