Quotes About Haughtiness

They would thus ruin themselves without warming the hearts of the population that surrounds them. It does not ask of them the sacrifice of their money, but of their haughtiness.

And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

Walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

It doesn't take much convincing to make someone believe they're better than everyone else.

Ylimielisyys on lyhytikäinen elätti.

Privately he called them a couple of puffed-up, dressed-up, made-up, stuck-up, brainless parakeets.

Those who remarked in the countenance of this young hero a dissolute audacity mingled with extreme haughtiness ... could not yet deny to his countenance that sort of comeliness which belongs to an open set of features, well formed by nature, modeled by art to the usual rules of courtesy, yet so far frank and honest, that they seemed as if they disclaimed to conceal the natural working of the soul.

The only crime is pride.

Sometimes she's so stuck up she'd drown in a rainstorm.

Because it had to do with more than all that. It was the haughtiness (despite the question mark over her 'stock', as his mother had not hesitated to put it). It had to do with the way she lived, in the country of her own skin. A country that issued no visas and seemed to have no consulates.

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

'Tis pride, rank pride, and haughtiness of soul: I think the Romans call it Stoicism.

Let's face it: Today silly women mired in the sophistries and seductions of the world, and haughty women obsessed with themselves, abound. Regrettably, many women succumb to the temptation to judge, gossip, and undermine one another.

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

Father, Your Word clearly states that You will punish the world for its evil, the wicked for their sins. You will put an end to the arrogance of the haughty and will humble the pride of the ruthless. (Isa. 13:11)

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 towards God and enmity toward our fellowmen.

Pride is about the ugliest trait somebody can have.

The arrogance of these people!

Arrogance and ignorance go hand in hand.

Well, for one, you walk around like you're so much better than everyone else. We're all a bunch of soulless animals or somethin' in your eyes, I guess. You're the high and mighty one and I ain't fit to drink your piss.

Too proud to crawl?" Kelsier said. "Nonsense! Why, I'd say that we Mistborn are too proud not to be humble enough to go crawling about -- in a dignified manner, of course." Dockson frowned, approaching the desk. "Kell, that didn't make any sense." "We Mistborn need not make sense," Kelsier said haughtily.

Arrogance, like anger, is often a fatal flaw.

Arrogance is incurable.