Joseph Addison Quotes About Pride

Quotes about: Pride

• Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.

  Joseph Addison

  Fall, Pride, Haughtiness

• A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

  Joseph Addison

  Humility, Pride, Men

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.301

• Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.

  Joseph Addison

  Moving, Pride, Littles

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.298

• I would have every zealous man examine his heart thoroughly, and I believe he will often find that what be calls a zeal for his religion is either pride, interest, or ill-repute.

  Joseph Addison

  Believe, Heart, Pride

• One would wonder to hear skeptical men disputing for the reason of animals, and telling us it is only our pride and prejudices that will not allow them the use of that faculty. Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately regards his own preservation, or the continuance of his species. Animals in their generation are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. Take a brute out of his instinct, and you find him wholly deprived of understanding.

  Joseph Addison

  Lying, Pride, Son

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1858). “The Spectator”, p.169

• There is no passion that steals into the heart more imperceptibly and covers itself under more disguises than pride.

  Joseph Addison

  Passion, Heart, Pride

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1804). “The Guardian”, p.321

• The pride of woman, natural to her, never sleeps until modesty is gone.

  Joseph Addison

  Sleep, Pride, Gone

• Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance.

  Joseph Addison

  Pride, Men, Arrogance

• Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.

  Joseph Addison

  Heart, Pride, Men

• The peacock in all his pride does not display half the colors that appear in the garments of a British lady when she is dressed.

  Joseph Addison

  Pride, Color, Doe

  Joseph Addison (1761). “The Works of the Late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq;”, p.250

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