Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Pride

• As for what I have done as a poet, I take no pride in whatever. Excellent poets have lived at the same time with me, poets more excellent lived before me, and others will come after me. But that in my country I am the only person who knows the truth in the difficult science of colors-of that, I say, I am not a little proud, and here have a consciousness of superiority to many.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Country, Pride, Color

• Too rigid scruples are concealed pride.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Pride, Scruples, Concealed

  "Iphigenia in Tauris". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, IV. 4. 120, April 6, 1779.

• The rose is wont with pride to swell, and ever seeks to rise.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Pride, Rose

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.2696, Delphi Classics

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