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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
EMILY BRONTE, Wuthering Heights
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
JANE AUSTEN, Pride and Prejudice
- In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies;
- All quit their spere, and rush into the skies!
- Pride still is aiming at the blessed abodes,
- Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods.
ALEXANDER POPE, An Essay on Man
- And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin
- Is pride that apes humility.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, The Devil's Thoughts
- Pride juggles with her toppling towers,
- They strike the sun and cease,
- But the firm feet of humility
- They grip the ground like trees.
G.K. CHESTERTON, The Ballad of the White Horse
Every cock is proud on his own dunghill.
- Deep is the sea, and deep is hell, but Pride mineth deeper;
- It is coiled as a poisonous worm about the foundations of the soul.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER, Proverbial Philosophy
The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.
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