Haughty Quotes
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See also Core English Vocabulary (H) List-
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
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[On friend Joan Crawford]: She is five feet four, but she looks six feet on the screen. In a two-shot with anyone, even Gable, (Clark Gable), your eyes fix on her. She is imperious, yet with a childlike sparkle. She is haughty, yet tender. She has no grea...
Steven Spielberg
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[On approaching the character of Mr. Darcy for Pride and Prejudice:] I find Darcy very sympathetic, I find it heartbreaking that he`s seen as very haughty and proud - and he is those things - but he`s a young man who is still grieving for his parents. He`...
Matthew MacFadyen
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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.
Alan Herbert
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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
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Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy.
Homer
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Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty.
Achin Vanaik
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Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty.
Achin Vanaik
