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'T's pride, rank pride, and haughtiness of soul;
I think the Romans call it stoicism.—ADDISON, Cato
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Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.—Bible, Proverbs 16:18
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God laughs in heaven when any man
Says "Here I'm learned; this I understand;
In that, I am never caught at fault or doubt."—ELIZABETH B. BROWNING, Aurora Leigh
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As if true pride
Were not also humble!—BROWNING, In an Album
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They are proud in humility; proud in that they are not proud.—ROBERT BURTON, Anatomy of Melancholy
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Oh why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Like a fast-flitting meteor, a fast-flying cloud,
A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave,
He passes from life to his rest in the grave.—BYRON, Don Juan
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And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin
Is pride that apes humility.—COLERIDGE, The Devil's Thoughts
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Pride is ignorance; those assume most who have the least wisdom or experience; and they steal from their neighbor, because they have so little of their own.—MARY BAKER EDDY
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The bigger they come, the harder they fall.—BOB FITZSIMMONS
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It is the lofty pine that by the storm
Is oftener tossed; towers fall with heavier crash
Which higher soar.—HORACE, Odes
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Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last.—HELEN HUNT JACKSON, Ramona
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Pride is equal in all men; and the only difference is in the means and manner of displaying it.—LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims
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Rather than be less,
Car'd not to be at all.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
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I pray God to keep me from being proud.—SAMUEL PEPYS, Diary
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How prudently we proud men compete for nameless graves, while now and then some starveling of Fate forgets himself into immortality.—WENDELL PHILLIPS
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Of all the causes which conspire to blind
Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind,
What the weak head with strongest bias rules,
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.—POPE, Essay on Criticism
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He that is too proud to ask is too good to receive.—Proverb
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Insolence is pride when her mask is pulled off.—Proverb
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It is good pride to desire to be the best of men.—Proverb
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If pride were an art there would be many teachers.—Proverb
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As proud as a cock on his own dunghill.—Proverb
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As proud as a peacock.—Proverb
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A proud look makes foul work in a fine face.—Proverb
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A proud mind and a poor purse are ill met.—Proverb
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Look out how you use proud words.
When you let proud words go, it is not
Easy to call them back.—CARL SANDBURG, Primer Lesson
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Pride is an established conviction of one's own paramount worth in some particular respect; while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction in others. Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.—SCHOPENHAUER
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My pride fell with my fortunes.—SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It
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Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk.—SHAKESPEARE, Cymbeline
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I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious; with more offences at my beck, than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
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He that is proud eats up himself;
Pride is his own glass, his own trumpet
His own chronicle.—SHAKESPEARE, Troilus and Cressida
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My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!—SHELLEY, Ozymandias
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Pride, when puffed up, vainly, with many things
Unseasonable, unfitting, mounts the wall,
Only to hurry to that fatal fall.—SOPHOCLES, Oedipus Tyrannus
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Pride is therefore pleasure arising from a man's thinking too
highly of himself.—SPINOZA, Ethics
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There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight.—WOODROW WILSON
