"High horse" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hospitality which he never received, and forgets, that instead of being the Host, he himself was the smiling and obsequious Guest of the man he pretends to have despised. With all this miserable forgetfulness of dignity and self-respect, he mounts the high horse, from which he instantly is tumbled into the dirt; and in his angry ravings collects together all the foul trash of literary gossip to fling at his adversary, but which is blown stifling back upon himself with odium and infamy. But let him call to mind his own conduct, and talk not of Mr. Jeffrey. ...
— Famous Reviews • Editor: R. Brimley Johnson
... so I decided that I would descend from my high horse, and once more seek out Poirot at ...
— The Mysterious Affair at Styles • Agatha Christie
... Rebs got up on their high horse an' said as how iffen Don Cazar warn't with 'em, then he was agin 'em, an' they would jus' move in on him. He tol' 'em to go ahead an' try. An' seem' as how they was only one company hereabouts—Howard's Rangers—they didn't try. That's when Johnny Shannon had his ...
— Rebel Spurs • Andre Norton
... sir," answered John, "our contract, if you will study it, allows me to invite whom I choose; it merely insists that my bride and I must be present, as you see we are. Pray go on with your part, and assure yourself it is no use to try the high horse with me." ...
— The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... not be stopped. He would do anything that his father might ask him. Anything but the one thing. He would not give up the wife he had chosen. It would not be reasonable, or proper, or righteous that he should be asked to do so; and here he mounted a somewhat high horse. ...
— Doctor Thorne • Anthony Trollope
... toward hushing it up, sir, if I were you, for it may only serve to put the police in mind of by gone things, which it may be better they should forget.' Carlyle, I went, as I tell you, to knock him down. I asked him how he could have the hardihood to repeat such slander to my face. He was on the high horse directly; said the parish spoke the slander, not he; and I got out of him what it was he ...
— East Lynne • Mrs. Henry Wood
... than that he would not commit himself, beyond saying that of course Hat was sensitive—awful sensitive—and just as thin-skinned as she could be, and it was only natural she should get up on her high horse when once she had him alone. It was not till near midnight that, red of eye and with her hair stringing down any old how, she put her head out of the companionway and looked vengefully at the Higgins place ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1919 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... a man," his hostess went on, "I never would let a woman see that I minded how she treated me. You'd soon have her coming down from her high horse if you showed her ...
— The Puritans • Arlo Bates
... he cried. "On your high horse, eh? Aren't you afraid you may fall off or get knocked off?" and he raised his ...
— The Passenger from Calais • Arthur Griffiths |
