Quotes About Haughty

The Book of Proverbs contains a warning that speaks to us in our uncertain state: "Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall."14 Those who believe they are changing the world, or saving the planet, or transforming the human race, are intoxicated with self-aggrandizing pride. As secular "redeemers," a haughty spirit is their second nature. Consequently, they are deaf to this biblical wisdom.

I have always been an arrogant man.

Ostentatious," he sniffed, slipping into

When the Eternal bows the skies To visit earthly things, With scorn divine he turns his eyes From towers of haughty kings. He bids his awful chariot roll Far downward from the skies, To visit every humble soul, With pleasure in his eyes.

Now to what higher object, to what greater character, can any mortal aspire than to be possessed of all this knowledge, well digested and ready at command, to assist the feeble and friendless, to discountenance the haughty and lawless, to procure redress to wrongs, the advancement of rights, to assert and maintain liberty and virtue to discourage and abolish tyranny and vice.

humility comes before honor and a haughty spirit before a fall.

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

Is this that haughty gallant, gay Lothario?

We have made the perilous journey through the tunnels to see the Princess Cimorene, newly come to these caverns, to comfort her and together bemoan our sad and sorry fates," the first princess said haughtily. "Tell her we are here." "I'm Cimorene," Cimorene said. "I don't need comforting, and I'm not particularly sad or sorry to be here, but if you'd like to come in and have some tea, you're welcome to." The

Like most nobility, he was self-centered as a gyroscope,