James Russell Lowell Quotes About Pride

Quotes about: Pride

• Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.

  James Russell Lowell

  Pride, Weakness, Twins

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.201

• Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride uphold.

  James Russell Lowell

  Children, Flower, Pride

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.82

• What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.

  James Russell Lowell

  Pride, Men, Funeral

  James Russell Lowell (1910). “Essays, English and American”

• Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness.

  James Russell Lowell

  Spring, Pride, Weakness

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1818, Delphi Classics

• Never did Poesy appear So full of heaven to me, as when I saw how it would pierce through pride and fear To the lives of coarsest men.

  James Russell Lowell

  Pride, Men, Poetry

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.40

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