Haughty Quotes

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

Joseph Addison

Fall, Pride, Haughtiness

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And when your soul becometh great, then doth it become haughty, and in your sublimity there is wickedness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Soul, Wickedness, Sublimity

Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.54, e-artnow

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Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.

Mark Twain

Inspirational, Humble, Humility

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I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

John Ruskin

Motivational, Believe, Humility

John Ruskin (1868). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.348

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A poor but humble man who gives nothing to charity is preferrable to a rich but haughty man who does.

Nachman of Breslov

Humble, Men, Giving

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Said one oyster to a neighboring oyster, "I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round and I am in distress." And the other oyster replied with haughty complacence, "Praise be to the heavens and to the sea, I have no pain within me. I am well and whole both within and without." At that moment a crab was passing by and heard the two oysters, and he said to the one who was well and whole both within and without, "Yes, you are well and whole; but the pain that your neighbor bears is a pearl of exceeding beauty."

Khalil Gibran

Beauty, Pain, Oysters

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

Laurence Fishburne

Thinking, People, Shy

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In our own times, you see, an emperor came to the city of Rome, where there's the temple of an emperor, where there's a fisherman's tomb. And so that pious and Christian emperor, wishing to beg for health, for salvation from the Lord, did not proceed to the temple of a proud emperor, but to the tomb of a fisherman, where he could imitate that fisherman in humility, so that he, being thus approached, might then obtain something from the Lord, which a haughty emperor would be quite unable to earn.

Saint Augustine

Christian, Humility, Cities

Saint Augustine of Hippo (2003). “Sermons III/11”, p.286

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

Joseph Joubert

Children, Pride, Men

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Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

Edith Wharton

Time, Age, Leaves Of Grass

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No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

John Ruskin

Simple, Architecture, Architect

John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.195, University of Virginia Press

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Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature, Victory, Insolent

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As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward.

Peter Greenaway

Maternity, Barren, Spinsters

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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To a haughty belly, kindness is hard to swallow and harder to digest.

Zora Neale Hurston

Kindness, Harder, Belly

Zora Neale Hurston (1995). “Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories”

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Fear not the proud and the haughty; fear rather him who fears God.

Saadi

Fear, Proud, Fear God

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It was a dagger in the haughty father's heart, an arrow in his brain, to see how the flesh and blood he could not disown clung to this obscure stranger, and he sitting by. Not that he cared to whom his daughter turned, or from whom turned away. The swift sharp agony struck through him, as he thought of what his son might do.

Charles Dickens

Daughter, Father, Heart

Charles Dickens (1858). “Dombey and Son ... With frontispiece by H. K. Browne”, p.52

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All the roads of the haughty man lead to arrogance!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Men, Arrogance

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Men hate the haughty of heart who will not be the friend of every man.

Euripides

Hate, Heart, Men

Euripides (2013). “Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus”, p.195, University of Chicago Press

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Use humility to make the enemy haughty. Tire them by flight. Cause division among them. When they are unprepared, attack and make your move when they do not expect it.

Sun Tzu

Military, War, Moving

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Even if you are the Sun itself, don't be haughty, because you will nevertheless die down!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Sun, Nevertheless, Dies

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The appointment of Jesus to be the Savior of the world was contested by one of the other sons of God. He was called Lucifer, son of the morning. Haughty, ambitious, and covetous of power and glory, this spirit-brother of Jesus desperately tried to become the Savior of mankind

Milton R. Hunter

Jesus, Morning, Brother

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Do not try to entrap others with your haughty knowledge. To your wide surprise, they will entrap you with their lengthy ignorance.

Sri Chinmoy

Ignorance, Knowledge, Trying

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Knowledge alone makes Christians haughty. Application makes us holy.

Andy Stanley

Christian, Holy, Application

"Deep & Wide: Creating Churches Unchurched People Love to Attend". Book by Andy Stanley, September 25, 2012.

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Cats are possessed of a shy, retiring nature, cajoling, haughty, and capricious, difficult to fathom. They reveal themselves only to certain favored individuals, and are repelled by the faintest suggestion of insult or even by the most trifling deception.

Pierre Loti

Appreciation, Cat, Deception

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I eat haughty, arrogant, manipulative, self-important bitches like you for breakfast, sugar. And then I go back for seconds.

Jennifer Estep

Self, Important, Arrogant

Jennifer Estep (2012). “Widow's Web”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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