Pride Quotes - Page 5

• Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Thanksgiving, Gratitude

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.115

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• What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings had their embalmed bodies preserved in massive pyramids, to obtain an earthly immortality. In the seventeenth century they were sold as quack medicines, and now they are burnt for fuel! The Egyptian mummies, which Cambyses or time hath spared, avarice now consumeth. Mummy is become merchandise.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Kings, Pyramids, Medicine

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• Earthly pride is like the passing flower, that springs to fall, and blossoms but to die.

  Henry Kirke White

  Spring, Flower, Fall

  Henry Kirke White (1834). “The Life and Remains of Henry Kirke White, Etc”, p.95

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• Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Lying, Ignorant, Looks

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.113

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• If there is a better solution... find it.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Solutions, Ifs

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• Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent.

  William J. Clinton

  People, Independence, Becoming

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001”, p.2549, Best Books on

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• The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Powerful, Men, Media

  Benjamin Disraeli's speech at the Printing Trade Festival, 1845.

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• Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.

  Austin O'Malley

  Riches, Characteristics

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• The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.

  William Blake

  Glory, Glory Of God, Peacock

  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell "Proverbs of Hell" (1790 - 1793)

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• Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.

  John Churton Collins

  Parent, Virtue

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• Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.

  Samuel Richardson

  Spiritual, Arrogant, Dangerous

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.73

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• To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to.

  Moliere

  Inspirational, Break Up, Blow

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• Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

  Dante Alighieri

  Heart, Men, Fire

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• Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Stars, Humor

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• You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. -Mr. Darcy

  Jane Austen

  Romantic, Love You, Cute Valentines Day

  Jane Austen, Joseph Pearce (2008). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.190, Ignatius Press

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• You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner.

  Jane Austen

  Love, Mrs Bennet, Prejudice

  "Pride and Prejudice". Book by Jane Austin (Chapter 34), January 28, 1813.

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• Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Two, Soul, Curiosity

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Essays”

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• Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust.

  Joseph J. Ellis

  Failing

  Joseph J. Ellis (2004). “His Excellency: George Washington”, p.41, Vintage

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• The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.

  Iris Murdoch

  Life, Hurt, Vanity

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  Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.

  Joe Paterno

  Sports, Loyalty, Running

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• One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.

  Josh Billings

  Men, Air, Vomiting

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• Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Vanity, Wish, Doe

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• My good opinion once lost is lost forever.

  Jane Austen

  Forever, Prejudice, Opinion

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.50

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• Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.

  Jonathan Swift

  Despise, Despised

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• Whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.

  William Shakespeare

  Deeds, Vanity And Pride, Praise

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edward Capell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.308

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