| Author |
Quotes |
| Alexander Pope | What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. |
| Alexander Pope | 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. |
| Alexander Pope | Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day, So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe. |
| Benjamin Franklin | Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, supped with Infamy. |
| Alexander Pope | What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. |
| Alexander Pope | 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. |
| Alexander Pope | Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day; So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe. |
| Bible | Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. |
| Elbert Hubbard | There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought. |
| Francois De La Rochefoucauld | Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay. |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride. |
| Fulton J Sheen | Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals. |
| Fulton John Sheen | Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals. |
| George Chapman | Let pride go afore, shame will follow after. |
| George Chapman | Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues. |
| George Santayana | The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age. |
| Iris Murdoch | The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession. |
| Isaac Bickerstaff | Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised. |
| Jean Baptiste Masillon | To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak. |
| Jewish Proverb | Pride is the mask of one's own faults. |
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