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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
EMILY BRONTE, Wuthering Heights
There is a paradox in pride--it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
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
Pride is a cold, stormy, barren mountain.
JOHN THORNTON, Maxims and Directions for Youth
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for, when we fail, our pride supports us, when we succeed, it betrays us.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
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.
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
Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
Pride erects a little kingdom of its own, and acts as sovereign in it.
WILLIAM HAZLITT, Characteristics
Pride, like cunning, is made offensive only by the manner in which it discovers itself.
NORMAN MACDONALD, Maxims and Moral Reflections
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
To the proud the slightest repulse or disappointment is the last indignity.
WILLIAM HAZLITT, Characteristics
Pride serves mostly at the door of success.
Pride ... is sometimes virtuous and sometimes vicious, according to the character in which it is found, and the object to which it is directed.
FULKE GREVILLE, Maxims, Characters, and Reflections
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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
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