Quotes About Haughtiness

Without knowing it, I was acquiring that haughty bearing which is characteristic of so many eccentrics. What other expression would you expect to find on the face of anyone who knows that if he turns his head too quickly, he will see on the faces of others glares of stark terror or grimaces of hatred? Aloofness is the posture of self-defense.

Who walks around proud of things they've done? That's an obnoxious quality.

Extremes meet and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility.

The same amount of pride which makes a man treat haughtily his inferiors, makes him cringe servilely; to those above him.

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

Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness.

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.

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

Her queenly head was poised haughtily upon her smooth red shoulders. Her

Hubris means deadly pride. Thinking you can do things better than anyone else.

I hate elitists. I hate conceited people. I hate pompous people.

There's a reason they say,"Pride goeth before a fall.

Splendor'? What an asshole."     *

Pompoziteti eshte shume i lodhshem.

The only crime is pride.

Los soberbios no hacen más que dañarse a sí mismos.

hubris. It means extreme confidence or arrogance to the point that one loses touch with reality and overestimates one's abilities.

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.

My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

I have a bit of pride, which is always my downfall.

A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring.

The only sin is pride.

polite with dignity, affable without formality, distant without haughtiness, grave without austerity

And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.