Mark Twain Quotes About Pride

• Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.

  Mark Twain

  Pride, Trouble, Temper

• I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

  Mark Twain

  Hate, Book, Writing

• The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny

  Mark Twain

  Pride, Vanity, Arrogance

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.406, Courier Corporation

• Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Character, Pride

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.7193, Delphi Classics

• I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.

  Mark Twain

  Pride, Thinking, World

  Address on the 4th of July, delivered 4 July 1899, London, England

• Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

  Mark Twain

  Pride, Skulls, Prejudice

• Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Humble, Humility

• What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery!

  Mark Twain

  Pride, Men, Discovery

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.266, Velvet Element Books

• Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Pride, Wind

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.34, Chartwell

• The kernel, the soul — let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances — is plagiarism. For substantially all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and daily used by the garnerer with a pride and satisfaction born of the superstition that he originated them; whereas there is not a rag of originality about them anywhere except the little discoloration they get from his mental and moral calibre and his temperament, and which is revealed in characteristics of phrasing.

  Mark Twain

  Pride, Hands, Ideas

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.831, Jazzybee Verlag

• We had an abundance of mangoes, papaias and bananas here, but the pride of the islands, the most delicious fruit known to men, cherimoya, was not in season. It has a soft pulp, like a pawpaw, and is eaten with a spoon.

  Mark Twain

  Pride, Men, Islands

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