Pride Quotes

“If ever thou be'st bound in thy scarf and beaten, thou shalt find what it is to be proud of thy bondage.”

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

“Never shame to hear what you have nobly done”

“I would not lose so great an honorAs one man more methinks would share with meFor the best hope I have.”

“I can see his pridePeep through each part of him.”

“Some glory in their birth , some in their skill , Some in their wealth , some in their bodies' force , Some in their garments, though new-fangled ill; Some in their hawks and hounds , some in their horse ; And every humor hath his adjunct pleasure , Wherein it finds a joy above the rest .”

“Why, who cries out on pride that can therein tax any private party? Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea till the weary very means do ebb?”

“My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken.”

“Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds.”

“All pride is willing pride.”

“O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!”

“I'll be damned for never a king's son in Christendom.”

“She says I am not fair, that I lack manners;She calls me proud, and that she could not love me,Were man as rare as Phoenix.”

“The gates of monarchsAre arched so high that giants may jet throughAnd keep their impious turbans on withoutGood morrow to the sun.”

“Merciful heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle; but man, proud man, Dressed in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured His glassy essence--like an angry ape Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens, would all themselves laugh mortal.”

“Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep.”

“I do not hate a proud man, as I do hate the engendering of toads.”

“No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him.”

“I am too old to fawn upon a nurse,Too far in years to be a pupil now.”

“But 'tis common proof, that lowliness is young ambition's ladder, whereto the climber-upward turns his face; but when he once attains the upmost round, he then turns his back, looks in the clouds, scorning the vase defrees by which he did ascend.”

“Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride.”

“Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn, can work on the soil, can travel afoot, can talk with poor men, or sit silent well contented with fine saloons. But vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last; a long way leading nowhere.--Only one drawback; proud people are intolerably selfish, and the vain are gentle and giving.”

“It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.”

“I must feel pride in my friend's accomplishments as if they were mine,--and a property in his virtues. I feel as warmly when he ispraised, as the lover when he hears applause of his engaged maiden.”

“The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatness, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.”