Top 13 Haughtiness Quotes

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

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

Joseph Addison

Fall, Pride, Haughtiness

When pride and presumption walk before, shame and loss follow very closely.

Louis XI of France

Pride, Loss, Haughtiness

Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude.

Plato

Solitude, Haughtiness, Roof

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness.

Khalil Gibran

Sick, Tolerance, Haughtiness

Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

Many persons, when exalted, assume an insolent humility, who behaved before with an insolent haughtiness.

William Shenstone

Humility, Haughtiness, Assuming

William Shenstone (1764). “The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq: Most of which Were Never Before Printed ...”, p.210

O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!

William Shakespeare

Pride, Haughtiness, World

'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. [141]

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

Plato, People, Haughtiness