Haughtiness Quotes

• 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

  Faith, Work, Privilege

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.364

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• Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.

  Joseph Addison

  Fall, Pride, Spirit

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• Haughtiness is the high heel shoe of the low men!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, High Heels, Shoes

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• Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude.

  Plato

  Solitude, Roof

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Fear, Islamic, Pride

  "'Bihar al-Anwar' ('Seas of Lights')". Hadith book by Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi, Volume 72,

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

  Louis XI of France

  Pride, Loss, Shame

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• Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness.

  Khalil Gibran

  Sick, Tolerance, Sickness

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• The best manners are stained by haughtiness.

  Claudius Claudianus

  Manners

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• Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or core, is still missing. The central feature of pride is enmity - enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Heart, Pride, Thinking

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

  William Shenstone

  Humility, Assuming, Persons

  William Shenstone (1764). “The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq: Most of which Were Never Before Printed ...”, p.210

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• 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

  Plato, People, May

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• 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

  Love, Christian, War

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

  Jose Saramago

  Attitude, Aliens, Characteristics

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• Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

  Alexander Pope

  Pride, Vices, Erring

  Alexander Pope (1835). “The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes [&c.] by G. Croly”, p.66

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• O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!

  William Shakespeare

  Pride, World, Proud

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. [141]

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• Deep is the sea, and deep is hell, but pride mineth deeper; it is coiled as a poisonous worm about the foundations of the soul.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Pride, Sea, Soul

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1871). “Proverbial philosophy: in 4 ser., now first complete”, p.41

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

  Samuel Johnson

  Pride, Men, Vices

  Samuel Johnson (1804). “Miscellaneous and fugitive pieces [chiefly of Johnson, ed. by T. Davies]. By S. Johnson”, p.359

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• 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

  Men, Humanity, Causes

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.32, Delphi Classics

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• The proud are ever most provoked by pride.

  William Cowper

  Pride, Proud, Provoked

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Humility, Pride, Example

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

  Ovid

  Pride, Companion, Fairs

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• Some people are all quality; you would think they are made up of nothing but title and genealogy. The stamp of dignity defaces in them the very character of humanity and transports them to such a degree of haughtiness that they reckon it below themselves to exercise either good nature or good manners.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Character, Exercise, Thinking

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• When you see someone who is not as religious, remember that you were once on the edge of the fire, and it was Allah Subhaanahu wa Ta'ala's favor upon you to guide you. Arrogance will wipe away any goodness from the transformation.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Religious, Islamic, Pride

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• 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

  Passion, Humility, Pride

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.522, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Determination, Character, Interesting

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”

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