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Waitresses, soldiers, rickshaw drivers, old ladies selling vegetables - my father would schmooze anybody. He was Clintonesque before the word existed. And, of course, it paid dividends. Ill-tempered guards at the most notorious border crossings waved him through with cheery smiles. Haughty maitre d's fawned over him. -- Scott Anderson
Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man. -- Joseph Joubert
The moon ... is a mad woman holding up her dress So that her white belly shines. Haughty, Impregnable, Ridiculous, Silent and white as a debauched queen. -- Yevgeny Zamyatin
The appointment of Jesus to be the Savior of the world was contested by one of the other sons of God. He was called Lucifer, son of the morning. Haughty, ambitious, and covetous of power and glory, this spirit-brother of Jesus desperately tried to become the Savior of mankind -- Milton R. Hunter
Edinburgh used to be a haughty city. -- Alexander McCall Smith
No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple. -- John Ruskin
Never be haughty to the humble or humble to the haughty. -- Jefferson Davis
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death. -- Edith Wharton
As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward. -- Peter Greenaway
General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation. -- Chief Joseph
I get accused of having a haughty smugness. I have a lopsided mouth. I can't help it. I was born with it. It looks as if I am smirking. I have had my publicist tell me, 'Don't do that smile on the red carpet.' I'm, like, 'That's my smile.' -- Natalie Dormer
Regardless of the gender of the highest wage earner, the balance of power in the relationship will suffer if the higher earner uses control of the purse strings as a system of reward and punishment. It will also suffer if the lower earner takes a chippy, haughty attitude to spending money they haven't actually generated themselves. -- Marian Keyes
Victory is by nature insolent and haughty. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Every great house is full of haughty servants. -- Juvenal
Knowledge alone makes Christians haughty. Application makes us holy. -- Andy Stanley
All the roads of the haughty man lead to arrogance! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. -- Joseph Addison
Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty. -- Mark Twain
Be not haughty with the humble; be not humble with the haughty. -- Jefferson Davis
Fear not the proud and the haughty; fear rather him who fears God. -- Saadi
To a haughty belly, kindness is hard to swallow and harder to digest. -- Zora Neale Hurston
People think that I'm haughty and stuck up, but really I'm just very shy. -- Laurence Fishburne
Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy. -- Homer
Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared. a -- George S. Clason
Men hate the haughty of heart who will not be the friend of every man. -- Euripides
Even if you are the Sun itself, don't be haughty, because you will nevertheless die down! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
He who lives upon the fruit of his own labor, escapes the contempt of haughty benefactors. -- Saadi
He is indeed the 'Lamb.' There is nothing harsh or haughty or retaliative about Him. -- J. Sidlow Baxter
Like the archers of Agincourt, John O'Neal and the 254 Swiftboat Veterans took down their own haughty Frenchman. -- Ann Coulter
How shall we praise the magnificence of the dead, The great man humbled, the haughty brought to dust? -- Conrad Aiken
And when your soul becometh great, then doth it become haughty, and in your sublimity there is wickedness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I eat haughty, arrogant, manipulative, self-important bitches like you for breakfast, sugar. And then I go back for seconds. -- Jennifer Estep
A poor but humble man who gives nothing to charity is preferrable to a rich but haughty man who does. -- Nachman of Breslov
The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning-place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Do not try to entrap others with your haughty knowledge. To your wide surprise, they will entrap you with their lengthy ignorance. -- Sri Chinmoy
The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man. -- Bram Stoker
A woman of haughty and fierce carriage, of a nimble wit and active spirit, a very voluble tongue, more bold than a man. -- John Winthrop
Beauty is given to dolls, majesty to haughty vixens, but mind, feeling, passion and the crowning grace of fortitude are the attributes of an angel." -- Charlotte Bronte
It cast an unholy glow all around him - which was entirely appropriate, because Julian was as seductive as mortal sin and as haughty as the devil." -- L. J. Smith
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 judgment instead. -- John Stott
I wonder if "an" ever occurs before "haughty" except in a quotation, or whether you can make anything sound like a quotation by adding a word like "goeth"? -- Gary Saul Morson
The starred and stately nights seemed haughty dames in jewelled velvets, nursing at home in lonely pride, the memory of their absent conquering Earls, the golden helmeted suns! -- Herman Melville
The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack. -- George Bernard Shaw
When the lion had eaten its fill, and the jackals had taken their share, the ants came along and finished up the meat from the bones of the haughty stag. -- Idries Shah
Use humility to make the enemy haughty. Tire them by flight. Cause division among them. When they are unprepared, attack and make your move when they do not expect it. -- Sun Tzu
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. -- Walt Whitman
An pretend and evil friend is haughty to be feared than a unmanageable beast; a unmanageable beast may mouthful your build up, but an evil friend fortitude mouthful your intellect. -- Gautama Buddha
...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. -- Philip Pullman
Consciousness may be seen as the haughty and restless second cousin of morphology. Memory is its mistress, perception its somewhat abused wife, logic its housekeeper, and language its poorly paid secretary -- Gerald Edelman
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. -- Elizabeth Bowen

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