PRIDE QUOTES III
quotations about pride
Pride either finds a desert, or makes one; submission cannot tame its ferocity, nor satiety fill its voracity, and it requires very costly food--its keeper's happiness.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
Pride is the constant enemy of love.
ANNA DE NOAILLES
Poéme de l'amour
It is reported of the peacock that priding himself in his gay feathers he ruffles them up; but spying his black feet he soon lets fall his plumes. So he that glories in his gifts and adornings should look upon his corruptions, and that will damp his high thoughts.
ANNE BRADSTREET
Meditations Divine and Moral
Pride serves mostly at the door of success.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
I do hate a proud man, as I hate the engendering of toads.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Troilus and Cressida
As the two great sources of our sins are pride and indolence, God has been pleased to make known, in himself, two corresponding means of cure -- his mercy and his justice.
BLAISE PASCAL
Thoughts of Blaise Pascal
Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, and supped with Infamy.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard; or, The Way to Wealth
Pride, when permitted full sway, is the great undying cankerworm which gnaws the very vitals of a man's worldly possessions, let them be small or great, hundreds or millions.
P. T. BARNUM
The Life of P. T. Barnum
Pride is never more offensive than when it condescends to be civil; whereas vanity, whenever it forgets itself, naturally assumes good-humor.
RICHARD CUMBERLAND
The Observer
Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
Pride is a vice not only dreadfully mischievous in human society, but perhaps of all others, the most insuperable bar to real inward improvement.
MRS. E. CARTER
attributed, Day's Collacon
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
BIBLE
Proverbs 16:18
A man is vulnerable only in his pride, but delicate as Humpty-Dumpty once that is meddled with.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Tender Is the Night
Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness--the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away.
ARTHUR HELPS
Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
How Pride can so far intoxicate men's understandings, as to make them fancy they are exalted by riches and honour above other men, and, in the vanity of their hearts, to look down with contempt upon their supposed inferiors, is prodigious, as usual as it is. Certainly it cannot be imagined that the richer clothes create the noble heart, or the choicer meats the more honourable blood; though with all the senseless boasting of noble blood, it is the quails and woodcocks, and other dainties, that give it all the pre-eminence it has above that which is bred by coarser diet; with the adoption of gouts and scurvys, and other honourable attendant diseases, into the bargain.
WELLINS CALCOTT
Thoughts Moral and Divine
Free at last, they took your life -- they could not take your pride.
U2
"Pride (In the Name of Love)", The Unforgettable Fire
Pride is like the beautiful acacia, that lifts its head proudly above its neighbor plants--forgetting that it too, like them, has its roots in the dirt.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
'Tis pride, rank pride, and haughtiness of soul:
I think the Romans call it Stoicism.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Cato
Pride, the first peer and president of Hell.
DANIEL DEFOE
The True-Born Englishman
Pride, like hooded hawks, in darkness soars
From blindness bold, and towering to the skies.
EDWARD YOUNG
Night Thoughts