Quotes
Quotes about Pride
Tell me who first did kisses suggest? It was a mouth all glowing and blest; It kissed and it thought of nothing beside. The fair month of May was then in its pride, The flowers were all from the earth fast springing, The sun was laughing, the birds were singing.
Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.
Avarice, envy, pride. Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all on Fire.
In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity is located in his conception of himself as the possessor of a phallus; a man's worth is located in his pride in phallic identity. The main characteristic of phallic identity is that worth is entirely contingent on the possession of a phallus. Since men have no other criteria for worth, no other notion of identity, those who do not have phalluses are not recognized as fully human.
The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap and they know it.
The tap'ring pyramid, the Egyptian's pride, And wonder of the world, whose spiky top Has wounded the thick cloud.
The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride. [Lat., Inquinat egregios adjuncta superbia mores.]
It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble ones. For nobility is an occasion for pride, the most treacherous of sentiments.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride: Let Nature guide thee; sometimes golden wire The shining belles of the fly require; The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail, Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail.
Fly pride, says the peacock: mistress, that you know.
And there they placed a peacock in his pride, Before the damsel.
The notion of a farseeing and despotic statesman, who can lay down plans for ages yet unborn, is a fancy generated by the pride of the human intellect to which facts give no support.
A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudice, and motivated by pride and vanity.
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.
Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.
Pride (of all others the most dang'rous fault) Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.
Too rigid scruples are concealed pride. [Ger., Zu strenge Ford'rung ist verborgner Stolz.]
Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.
What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
