PRIDE QUOTES III

quotations about pride

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Pride is the constant enemy of love.

ANNA DE NOAILLES

Poéme de l'amour


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

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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

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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

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I do hate a proud man, as I hate the engendering of toads.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Troilus and Cressida

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Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, and supped with Infamy.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Poor Richard; or, The Way to Wealth

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Pride serves mostly at the door of success.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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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

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Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

BIBLE

Proverbs 16:18

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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

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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


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

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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

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Vanity is a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs and chuck us over; but pride is a fine horse, that will carry us over the ground, and enable us to distance our fellow travelers.

FREDERICK MARRYAT

Peter Simple: Or, The Adventures of a Midshipman


'Tis pride, rank pride, and haughtiness of soul:
I think the Romans call it Stoicism.

JOSEPH ADDISON

Cato

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Pride, the first peer and president of Hell.

DANIEL DEFOE

The True-Born Englishman

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Free at last, they took your life -- they could not take your pride.

U2

"Pride (In the Name of Love)", The Unforgettable Fire

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Pride, like hooded hawks, in darkness soars
From blindness bold, and towering to the skies.

EDWARD YOUNG

Night Thoughts

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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


He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle; and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Troilus and Cressida

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