“At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.”
“Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.”
“The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.”
“Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.”
“It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.”
“My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.”
“What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.”
“I would not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.”
“There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.”
“Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.”
“Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.”
“There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.”
“There is this paradox in pride -- it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.”
“The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.”
“No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.”
“When science discovers the center of the universe a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.”
“Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.”
“Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.”
“Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.”
“Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.”
“If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.”
“A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.”
“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.”
“Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.”
“I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom --one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.”
“Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.”
“Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.”
“Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep.”
“It is my PRIDE, my damn d, native, unconquerable Pride, that plunges me into Distraction. You must know that 19 --20th of my Composition is Pride. I must either live a Slave, a Servant; to have no Will of my own, no Sentiments of my own which I may freely declare as such; --or DIE --perplexing alternative!”
“I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, which, if given time, will rend the hardest monuments of pride.”