Pride goes before destruction and
a haughty spirit before a fall.
?Joseph Addison
Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly
fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
?Fulton John Sheen
There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men
ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
?Charles Caleb Colton
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
The truly proud man knows neither superiors
nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of;
the last he does not concern himself about.
?William Hazlitt
And the Devil did grin, for his darling
sin is pride that apes humility.
?Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What is pride? A whizzing rocket that
would emulate a star.
?William Wordsworth
Pride is seldom delicate; it will please
itself with very mean advantages.
?Samuel Johnson
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something,
only out of having more of it than the next man.
?C. S. Lewis
Pride does not wish to owe and
vanity does not wish to pay.
?Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than
the little bit of reason and sense of
freedom which now constitutes our pride.
?Friedrich Nietzsche
Pride is the mask of one's own faults.
?Jewish Proverb
