Quotes About Haughtiness

You really do think you're the cat's pajamas, don't you?" I asked Raphael, annoyed with his arrogance.

Pride is a dangerous indulgence.

The girl's face looks greedy, haughty and very lazy. The cream-at-the-top-of-the-milkpail face of someone who will never work for anything; someone who picks up things lying on other people's dressers and is not embarrassed when found out. It is the face of a sneak who glides over to your sink to rinse the fork you have laid by her plate. An inward face ---whatever it sees is its own self. You are there, it says, because I am looking at you.

Dame Alice was suffering from nothing more than an indigestion of self-importance.

Pride will spit in pride's face.

Some people, you would think, 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 them to exercise good nature or good manners.

They think they're better than everyone else." "No," said Jace. "I think I'm better than everyone else. An opinion that has been backed up with ample evidence." Kyle looked at Simon. "Does he always talk like this?" "Yes.

You must know,' said Estella, condescending to me as a beautiful and brilliant woman might, 'that I have no heart

a monstrous bastion of arrogant elegance

I'm tired of self-important mentalities

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.

Nothing could be more gracefully majestic than his step and manner, had they not been marked by a predominant air of haughtiness, easily acquired by the exercise of unresisted authority.

Arrogance takes many forms.

Pride is a fool's fortress

All this nobility is really nauseating.

The duchess turned on Eugène with one of those insolent stares that envelop a man from head to foot, flatten him out, and leave him at zero.

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

Arrogance is blindness.

What causes all this?" "Pride. What else?

The woman had her nose so far up in the air that she was in danger of drowning in a rainstorm.

Do you imagine that the poisonous spittle of five hundred little men of your sort, hoisted on to each other's shoulders, could even drool down on to the tips of my august toes?

Imagine if every species named itself after its greatest flaw. We could name our species arrogance.

All the roads of the haughty man lead to arrogance!

For a haughty man, all roads lead to arrogance!