(13 quotes found)
“Never be haughty to the humble or humble to the haughty.”
Jefferson Davis
“The haughty blind person picks a fight with his guide. - Ethiopia”
African Proverb
“She looks so haughty that I should have thought her a princess at the very least, with a pedigree reaching as far back as the Deluge. But this lady was no better born than many other ladies who give themselves airs; and all sensible people laughed at her absurd pretensions.”
William Makepeace Thackeray
“Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.”
Albert Einstein
“She flays with indignation haughty, The passages she thinks are naughty, but reads them carefully so that, she'll know what to be angry at”
Edward Anthony
“`Very haughty!' he said, `the wild Buccaneer.'”
John Galsworthy
“It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Oh, tenderly the haughty day Fills his blue urn with fire”
“An old, and haughty nation proud in arms.”
John Milton
“And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.”
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