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Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.
Alexander Pope
At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
You cannot hold your head high with your hand out.
Yiddish Proverb
Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.
Thomas Fuller
We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
Andrew Young
There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people, except Christians, ever imagine that they are guilty themselves. I have heard people admit that they are bad-tempered, or that they cannot keep their heads about girls or drink, or even that they are cowards. I do not think I have ever heard anyone who was not a Christian accuse himself of this vice. And at the same time I have very seldom met anyone, who was not a Christian, who showed the slightest mercy to it in others. There is no fault which makes a man more unpopular, and no fault which we are more unconscious of in ourselves. And the more we have it ourselves, the more we dislike it in others.The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility. You may remember, when I was talking about sexual morality, I warned you that the centre of Christian morals did not lie there. Well, now, we have come to the centre. According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity. C
Pride and humiliation hand in hand
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The
The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.
Mignon McLaughlin
Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.
Austin O'Malley
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.
Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.
Jane Austen
Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
Blaise Pascal
Man is a feeble creature, to whom only submission and worship are besoming. Pride is insolence, and belief in human power is impiety
Bertrand Russell
Pride the first peer and president of hell.
Daniel Defoe
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy
Benjamin Franklin
Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.
Frederick Saunders
To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak.
Jean Baptiste Masillon
