Pride Quotes
Here are some of the best 'Pride' quotations and sayings around.
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A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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As Plato entertained some friends in a room where there was a couch richly ornamented, Diogenes came in very dirty, as usual, and getting upon the couch, and trampling on it, said, "I trample upon the pride of Plato." Plato mildly answered, "But with greater pride, Diogenes!"
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Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the statures of a child and the face of a man.
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He that is proud eats up himself; pride is his glass, his trumpet, his chronicle; and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.
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I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds.
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I have been more and more convinced, the more I think of it, that, in general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. All the other passions do occasional good; but whenever pride puts in its word, everything goes wrong; and what it might really be desirable to do, quietly and innocently, it is mortally dangerous to do proudly.
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If a proud man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is that he keeps his at the same time.
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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.
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Infidelity, alas! is not always built upon doubt, for this is diffident, nor philosophy always upon wisdom, for this is meek; but pride is neither.
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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.
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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 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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