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• The moon ... is a mad woman holding up her dress So that her white belly shines. Haughty, Impregnable, Ridiculous, Silent and white as a debauched queen.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Queens, Moon, White

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• [E]volutionists sometimes take as haughty an attitude toward the next level up the conventional ladder of disciplines: the human sciences. They decry the supposed atheoretical particularism of their anthropological colleagues and argue that all would be well if only the students of humanity regarded their subject as yet another animal and therefore yielded explanatory control to evolutionary biologists.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Attitude, Animal, Discipline

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas”, p.64, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Prostrate on earth the bleeding warrior lies,
  And Isr'el's beauty on the mountains dies.
  How are the mighty fallen!
  Hush'd be my sorrow, gently fall my tears,
  Lest my sad tale should reach the alien's ears:
  Bid Fame be dumb, and tremble to proclaim
  In heathen Gath, or Ascalon, our shame
  Lest proud Philistia, lest our haughty foe,
  With impious scorn insult our solemn woe.

  William Somervile

  Lying, Fall, Warrior

  "The Lamentation of David over Saul and Jonathan". Poem by William Somervile,

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• The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.

  Bram Stoker

  Sex, Men, Law

  Bram Stoker, Richard Dalby, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, S. T. Joshi (1997). “Best Ghost and Horror Stories”, p.133, Courier Corporation

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• Some men who know that they are great are so very haughty withal and insufferable that their acquaintance discover their greatness only by the tax of humility which they are obliged to pay as the price of their friendship.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Humility, Greatness, Men

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.50

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• It often seems as though the silent, humble servant is secretly wiser and more discerning than the haughty master; yet through dutiful (and sometimes insecure) surrender he continues to serve and carry out petty orders in loyal acquiesce.

  Criss Jami

  Humble, Insecure, Order

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.41, Criss Jami

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• Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy.

  Homer

  Spirit, Courtesy, Gentle

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• The Yiddish mentality is not haughty. It does not take victory for granted. It does not demand and command but it muddles through, sneaks by, smuggles itself amidst the powers of destruction, knowing somewhere that God's plan for Creation is still at the very beginning.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Knowing, Victory, Doe

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph C. Landis (1986). “Aspects of I.B. Singer”

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• To make the cunning artless, tame the rude, subdue the haughty, shake the undaunted soul; yea, put a bridle in the lion's mouth, and lead him forth as a domestic cur,--these are the triumphs of all-powerful beauty.

  Joanna Baillie

  Beauty, Powerful, Rude

  Joanna Baillie (1832). “The Complete Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie”, p.36

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• Life is a system of relations rather than a positive and independent existence; and he who would be happy himself and make others happy must carefully preserve these relations. He cannot stand apart in surly and haughty egoism; let him learn that he is as much dependent on others as others are on him.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  Independent, Make Others Happy, Would Be

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• ... 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

  People, Doubt, Matter

  Mary Church Terrell (1986). “A Colored Woman in a White World”

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• When the lion had eaten its fill, and the jackals had taken their share, the ants came along and finished up the meat from the bones of the haughty stag.

  Idries Shah

  Taken, Meat, Lions

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.72, Octagon Press Ltd

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• Sure as the most certain sure, plumb in the uprights, well entretied, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I and this mystery here we stand.

  Walt Whitman

  Horse, Mystery, Stout

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.3, NYU Press

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• We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of this haughty, vigilant, resolute, sagacious blue-stocking, half Mithridates and half Trissotin, bearing up against a world in arms, with an ounce of poison in one pocket and a quire of bad verses in the other.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Strength, Nature, Character

  "Frederick the Great". Book by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay, p. 90, 1842.

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• We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit humbly under its judgments instead. If we come to Scripture with our minds made up, expecting to hear from it only an echo of our own thoughts and never the thunderclap of God's, then indeed he will not speak to us and we shall only be confirmed in our own prejudices. We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.

  John Stott

  Echoes, Mind, Scripture

  "Authentic Christianity". Book by John Stott, 1995.

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• 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

  Moving, Home, People

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• We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit humbly under its judgment instead.

  John Stott

  Bible, Christian, Needs

  "Authentic Christianity". Book by John Stott, 1995.

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• I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Facts, Ancestry, Descent

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.637, Oxford University Press

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• The starred and stately nights seemed haughty dames in jewelled velvets, nursing at home in lonely pride, the memory of their absent conquering Earls, the golden helmeted suns!

  Herman Melville

  Lonely, Stars, Memories

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.138, Velvet Element Books

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• Lo, the most excellent sun so calm and haughty, The violet and purple morn with just-felt breezes, The gentle soft-born measureless light, The miracle spreading bathing all, the fulfill'd noon, The coming eve delicious, the welcome night and the stars, Over my cities shining all, enveloping man and land.

  Walt Whitman

  Stars, Night, Men

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.534, NYU Press

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• A woman of haughty and fierce carriage, of a nimble wit and active spirit, a very voluble tongue, more bold than a man.

  John Winthrop

  Men, Tongue, Nimble

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• Edinburgh used to be a haughty city.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Cities, Edinburgh, Used

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• When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of his audience. These no less than the language , the marble, the paint, are part of his aw material.; to be used, tamed, sublimated, not ignored or defied. Haughty indifference to them is not genius, it is laziness and incompetence.

  C. S. Lewis

  Artist, Culture, Genius

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• I wonder if "an" ever occurs before "haughty" except in a quotation, or whether you can make anything sound like a quotation by adding a word like "goeth"?

  Gary Saul Morson

  Sound, Wonder, Quotations

  Gary Saul Morson (2011). “The Words of Others: From Quotations to Culture”, p.4, Yale University Press

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• Every great house is full of haughty servants.

  Juvenal

  House, Servant

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