Every great house is full of haughty servants.
No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
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.
Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy.
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.
Fear not the proud and the haughty; fear rather him who fears God.
The beautiful wooden board on a stand in my father's study. The gleaming ivory pieces. The stern king. The haughty queen. The noble knight. The pious bishop. And the game itself, the way each piece contributed its individual power to the whole. It was simple. It was complex. It was savage; it was elegant. It was a dance; it was a war. It was finite and eternal. It was life.
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.
People think that I'm haughty and stuck up, but really I'm just very shy.
Even if you are the Sun itself, don't be haughty, because you will nevertheless die down!
Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared. a
Cats are possessed of a shy, retiring nature, cajoling, haughty, and capricious, difficult to fathom. They reveal themselves only to certain favored individuals, and are repelled by the faintest suggestion of insult or even by the most trifling deception.
Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.
Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.
First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences, gestures, attitudes, a burning phrase with no context.
. . . his face bore an expression that mingled haughty disdain with a tender, ardent sympathy, as if he would love all things if only his nature could let him forget their defects.
He is indeed the 'Lamb. ' There is nothing harsh or haughty or retaliative about Him.
Be not haughty with the humble; be not humble with the haughty.
All the roads of the haughty man lead to arrogance!
A poor but humble man who gives nothing to charity is preferrable to a rich but haughty man who does.
