Pride Quotes

"Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments."

"Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall."

"I am the greatest. Not only do I knock em out, I pick the round!"

"The proud are ever most provoked by pride."

"What is pride? A whizzing rocket that would emulate a star."

"Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt."

"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."

"Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold."

"Half close your eyelids, loosen your hair,And dream about the great and their pride;They have spoken against you everywhere,But weigh this song with the great and their pride;I made it out of a mouthful of air,Their children's children shall say they have lied."

"Where, where but here have Pride and Truth,That long to give themselves for wage,To shake their wicked sides at youthRestraining reckless middle age?"

"It is a point of pride for the American male to keep the same size jockey shorts for his entire life."

"I would not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well."

"Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride"

"What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars"

"There is this paradox in pride -- it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so."

"Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages."

"At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense."

"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."

"Pride will have a fall; For pride goeth before and shame cometh after"

"Pride comes before a fall"