Quotes about supercilious (7 Quotes)


    Blanche Ingram, after having repelled, by supercilious taciturnity, some efforts of Mrs Dent and Mrs Eshton to draw her into conversation, had first murmured over some sentimental tunes and airs on the piano, and then, having fetched a novel from the library, had flung herself in haughty listlessness on a sofa and prepared to beguile, by the spell of fiction, the tedious hours of absence.


    I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning I don't think so much learning becomes a young woman for instance, I would never let her meddle with Greek, or Hebrew, or algebra, or simony, or fluxions, or paradoxes, or such inflammatory branches of learning nor will it be necessary for her to handle any of your mathematical, astronomical, diabolical instruments but... I would send her, at nine years old, to a boarding-school, in order to learn a little ingenuity and artifice then, sir, she would have a supercilious knowledge in accounts, and, as she grew up, I would have her instructed in geometry, that she might know something of the contagious countries this is what I would have a woman know and I don't think there is a superstitious article in it.

    I don't think he ever asked a middle-aged business executive if he was a virgin. But that was the one time they caught that weirdness about him, where he liked to put people off balance and have this supercilious smile on his face.

    For it is esteemed a kind of dishonour unto learning to descend to inquiry or meditation upon matters mechanical, except they be such as may be thought secrets, rarities, and special subtleties, which humour of vain supercilious arrogancy is justly derided in Plato.... But the truth is, they be not the highest instances that give the securest information as may well be expressed in the tale ... of the philosopher, that while he gazed upwards to the stars fell into the water for if he had looked down he might have seen the stars in the water, but looking aloft he could not see the water in the stars. So it cometh often to pass, that mean and small things discover great, better than great can discover the small.


    No solemn sanctimonious face I pull, Nor think I 'm pious when I 'm only bilious Nor study in my sanctum supercilious, To frame a Sabbath Bill or forge a Bull.

    The idea that he is haunted by what humans do I just loved that irony because we are all so afraid of dying. Originally, he was a very different voice. He was supercilious. He was enjoying his work too much and he would say creepy things, which is the obvious.



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