Quotes of Pride - somelinesforyou

“ 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

“ Pride sullies the noblest character. ”

- Claudianus

“ When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity. ”

- Dale Carnegie

“ The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion. ”

- Democritus

“ Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend. ”

- Jules Renard

“ Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to. ”

- Moliere

“ Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system. ”

- Stuart Stevens

“ The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation. ”

- William Hutton

“ Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasions to change. ”

- Frank Lloyd Wright

“ It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all. ”

- Heinrich Heine

“ He that is proud eats up himself; pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; all is vanity. ”

- Bible

“ Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening. ”

- Frank Tyger

“ The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ My pride fell with my fortunes. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity — So it be new, there's no respect how vile — That is not quickly buzzed into his ears? ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Pride in their port, defiance in their eye I see the Lords of human kind pass by. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ We rise in glory as we sink in pride.". ”

- Andrew Young

“ Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion that their daily birth From all the fuming vanities of earth. ”

- William Wordsworth

“ Vanitas vanitatum" has rung in the earsOf gentle and simple for thousands of years;The wail still is heard, yet its notes never scareEither simple or gentle from Vanity Fair. ”

- Frederick Locker Lampson

“ The budget should be balanced. Public debt should be reduced. The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered, and assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ Pride the first peer and president of hell. ”

- Daniel Defoe

“ Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion. ”

- Robert Burns

“ Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood — we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we. ”

- Jean Rostand

“ 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

“ Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. ”

- Charles Caleb Colton
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