#haughty

She was one of those women of good family who no longer exist, elegant, distinguished, and haughty, whose pallor and thinness seem to say, 'I am conquered by the era, like all my breed. I am dying, but I despise you,' and - devil take me! - plebeian as I am, and though it is not very philosophical , I cannot help finding that beautiful. ↗

— Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly

#haughty #women #beauty

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

#collect #days #general #give #go

A session of boasting won't attract any real friends.  It will set you up on a pedestal, however, making you a clearer target. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#bragging #conceit #gossip #haughty #pride

Never be haughty to the humble or humble to the haughty. ↗

— Jefferson Davis

#humble #never

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple. ↗

— John Ruskin

#haughty #simple #which

Haughtiness is the high heel shoe of the low men! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#men

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

#breadth #broad #calm #death #delicious