Pride Quotes
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None have more pride than those who dream that they have none. You may labor against vainglory till you conceive that you are humble, and the fond conceit of your humility will prove to be pride in full bloom.
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O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!
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Of all marvellous things, perhaps there is nothing that angels behold with such supreme astonishment as a proud man.
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Of all the causes which conspire to blind man's erring judgment, and mislead the mind, what the weak head with strongest bias rules, is pride - that never failing vice of fools.
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Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.
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Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
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Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of.
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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.
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Pride fills the world with harshness and severity; we are rigorous to offences as if we had never offended.
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Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
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Pride had rather go out of the way than go behind.
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Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.
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Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.
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Pride is increased by ignorance; those assume the most who know the least.
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Pride is not the heritage of man; humility should dwell with frailty, and atone for ignorance, error, and imperfection.
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Pride is seldom delicate: it will please itself with very mean advantages.
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Pride is the ape of charity, in show not much unlike, but somewhat fuller of action. They are two parallels, never but asunder; charity feeds the poor, so does pride; charity builds an hospital, so does pride. In this they differ: charity gives her glory to God; pride takes her glory from man.
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Pride is the common forerunner of a fall. It was the devil's sin, and the devil's ruin; and has been, ever since, the devil's stratagem, who, like an expert wrestler, usually gives a man a lift before he gives him a throw.
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Pride is the direct appreciation of oneself.
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