Quotes with haughty

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• Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.

  Joseph Addison
  English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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• Every great house is full of haughty servants.

  Juvenal
  Roman poet
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• 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.

  William S. Gilbert
  English dramatist, poet and illustrator (1836 - 1911)
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• No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

  John Ruskin
  English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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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.

  Walt Whitman
  American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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• Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the custom, to spare the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low.

  Virgil
  Roman poet (70 - 19)
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• Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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• Who dreads to the dust returning?
  Who shrinks from the sable shore,
  Where the high and haughty yearning
  Of the soul can sting no more?

  The Revel: Time of the Famine and Plague in India, reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.

  Bartholomew Dowling
   
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Subjects in these quotes:

• particularly
• protoplasmal
• architecture
• primordial
• delicious
• authority

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