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Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude. -- Plato
Haughtiness is the high heel shoe of the low men! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot. -- Stephen Jay Gould
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. -- David Hume
The best manners are stained by haughtiness. -- Claudius Claudianus
Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness. -- Khalil Gibran
Pride is innate in beauty, and haughtiness is the companion of the fair. -- Ovid
Many persons, when exalted, assume an insolent humility, who behaved before with an insolent haughtiness. -- William Shenstone
The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others. -- Jose Saramago
Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars -- Leo Tolstoy
I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please. -- Edmund Burke
If one avoids haughtiness to the utmost extent and is exceedingly humble, he is termed a saint, and this is the standard of saintliness. -- Maimonides
Over the whole, a young lady presided, whose gloomy haughtiness as she surveyed the street, announced a deep-seated grievance against society, and an implacable determination to be avenged. -- Charles Dickens
If we see pride among people who have no idea about Dharma, it is understandable. However, if afflictive emotions and haughtiness are present among Dharma practitioners, it is great disgrace to practice -- Dalai Lama
It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen. -- Ezra Taft Benson
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Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness. -- Khalil Gibran
He was aware he did not love her. He had married her because he liked her haughtiness, her seriousness, her strength, and also because of some vanity on his part, but as she kissed him for the first time he was sure there would be obstacle to their inventing true love. -- Gabriel García Márquez
Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars -- Leo Tolstoy

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