Scott Anderson

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.

American Journalist

Toby Stephens

I've been misconstrued because I speak in a certain way. I find it obnoxious how it defines you, somehow limits your ability to understand the human condition. You can't be allowed near emotions; you play these curling-lipped, haughty characters. This awful label - 'the posh Toby Stephens' - I'm not posh!

English Actor

Natalie Dormer

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.

English Actress

Gwen Ifill

Journalists like to give themselves credit for being on the hunt for 'the truth.' But if we embrace this undoubtedly noble but somewhat haughty interpretation of a calling, we inevitably become susceptible to slam dunk answers.

Edith Wharton

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

American Author

Howard Jacobson

Alarm bells ring when a politician stands haughty upon his honour.

British Novelist

Jefferson Davis

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

American Leader

John Ruskin

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

English Writer

Jemele Hill

We Americans can be haughty. We can be delusional.

Alexander McCall Smith

Scottish Writer

Haughty can imply a quiet disdain or contempt for others that may not be overtly expressed.

Subtle Disdain

'Haughty' can describe actions or body language, not just verbal expression.

Not Just Words

Haughty behavior may particularly stand out in social situations where humility or equality is expected.

Social Situations

 We're right at that point of transition. But I think that there really is something coming along after us. I think it's very haughty of us to think that we're the end product of evolution. And I think all of us here are a part of producing whatever that next thing is.