183 quotes found
“Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt.”
“The proud hate pride - in others.”
“Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift-fleeing meteor a fast flying cloud A flash of the lightning a break of the wave Man passes from life to his rest in the grave.”
“Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.”
“Pride goeth before destruction and an haughty spirit before a fall.”
“In pride in reas'ning pride our error lies All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes Men would be angels angels would be gods.”
“The infinitely little have pride infinitely great.”
“The Washington Redskin fan base represents honor, represents respect, represents pride.”
“This is stupid.""Look. You think how stupid people are most of the time. Old men drink. Women at a village fair. Boys throwing stones at birds. Life. The foolishness and the vanity, the selfishness...”
“Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element ...”
“Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.”
“So, using his pride like a shield against despair, dejection, and-most important—self-pity, Raoden raised his head to stare damnation in the eyes.”
“One’s self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.”
“The privacy of pride.”
“As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal there will be those who will delight to offer affront to your idol.”
“The words hurt my throat a little – probably because I was swallowing my pride, and it didn’t taste so great.”
“He had the fault of thinking too well of himself--which who has not who thinks of himself at all, apart from his relation to the holy force of life, within yet beyond him? It was the almost unconsc...”
“The well-meaning woman was in fact possessed by two devils--the one the stiff-necked devil of pride, the other the condescending devil of benevolence. She was kind, but she must have credit for it”
“No good ever comes of pride, for it is the meanest of mean things, and no one but he who is full of it thinks it grand.”
“Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one’s strength, to read a book – I call that viciousness!”
