| Author |
Quotes |
| John Ruskin | In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. - John Ruskin, |
| Josh Billings | One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs. |
| Nicholas Rowe | Is this that haughty, gallant, gay Lothario? |
| Voltaire | The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great. |
| Wentworth Dillon | Pride Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought. |
| William Hazlitt | The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of, the last he does not concern himself about. |
| William Knox | Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, Man passes from life to his rest in the grave. |
| C S Lewis | Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. |
| Charles Caleb Colton | There is a paradox in pride, it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so. |
| Charles Caleb Colton | There is this paradox in pride--it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so. |
| Joseph Addison | Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. |
| John Dryden | Lord of human kind. |
| Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | Too rigid scruples are concealed pride. |
| Philip James Bailey | As proud as Lucifer. |
| Robert Burton | They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud. |
| Samuel Johnson | Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages. |
| Samuel Johnson | Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages. |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility. |
| William Wordsworth | What is pride? A whizzing rocket that would emulate a star. |
| William Shakespeare | Why, who cries out on pride That can therein tax any private party? Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea Till that the weary very means do ebb? |
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