PRIDE QUOTES II
quotations about pride
The demon of pride was born with us, and it will not die one hour before us; it is so woven into the very warp and woof of our nature, that till we are wrapped in our winding sheets, we shall never hear the last of it.
C. H. SPURGEON
The Complete Sermons of C. H. Spurgeon
How little do they know of human nature, who imagine that pride is likely to be subdued by adversity.
ARTHUR HELPS
Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin
Is pride that apes humility.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
The Devil's Thoughts
Pride juggles with her toppling towers,
They strike the sun and cease,
But the firm feet of humility
They grip the ground like trees.
G. K. CHESTERTON
The Ballad of the White Horse
They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud.
ROBERT BURTON
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Pride, indeed, is not only the sin by which Lucifer falls in Christian angelography, but it peoples Tartarus also in heathen legends; and the boastful Salmoneus, whose insane ambition aspires to mimic the thunder of Jove, is always the first to be blasted by the bolt.
JOHN STUART BLACKIE
Four Phases of Morals
It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.
GEORGES BERNANOS
The Diary of a Country Priest
Humility must be a very glorious thing, since Pride itself puts it on not to be despised. Pride must be of itself something deformed and shameful, since it dares not show itself naked, and is forced to appear in a mask.
WELLINS CALCOTT
Thoughts Moral and Divine
In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies;
All quit their spere, and rush into the skies!
Pride still is aiming at the blessed abodes,
Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods.
ALEXANDER POPE
An Essay on Man
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
JANE AUSTEN
Pride and Prejudice
When a man's pride is thoroughly subdued, it is like the sides of Mount Etna. It was terrible while the eruption lasted and the lava flowed; but when that is past, and the lava is turned into soil, it grows vineyards and olive trees up to the very top.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Life Thoughts
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.
DALE CARNEGIE
How to Win Friends and Influence People
All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
SOPHOCLES
Antigone
As proud as Lucifer.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY
Festus
Lustre of man walking proud beneath the sky diminishes to nothing and goes unregarded.
AESCHYLUS
The Eumenides
Pride, by a great mistake, is commonly taken for a greatness of soul, as if the soul was to be ennobled by vice: For that Pride is one of the most enormous of vices, I think no reasonable man can dispute; it is the base offspring of weakness, imperfection and ignorance, since, were we not weak and imperfect creatures, we should not be destitute of knowledge of ourselves; and had we that knowledge, it were impossible we should be proud.
WELLINS CALCOTT
Thoughts Moral and Divine
It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others, think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
Pride is often the chief cause of our reproving others faults, that we may be thereby judged not guilty of the like errors.
WELLINS CALCOTT
Thoughts Moral and Divine
You have no pride. If you have it, misplace it. Under your mattress, in someone else's cupboard. It'll do you no favours.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Radiance
As if true pride
Were not also humble!
ROBERT BROWNING
In an Album