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My family pride is something inconceivable. I can’t help it. I was born sneering.
W.S. Gilbert (1836-1911) English librettist.
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes humility.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) English Poet.
Pride the first peer and president of hell.
Defoe.
“Tis the most nonsensical thing in the world for a man to be proud, since ‘tis in the meanest wretch’s power to mortify him. How uneasy have I seen my Lord all pride in the park, when the company turned their eyes from him and his gaudy equipage!.
I.B.Brown.
Pride brake the angels in heaven, and spoils all the heads we find cracked here.
Osborn.
Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels.
Colton.
Pride is to the character, like the attic to the house the highest part, and generally the most empty.
Pride is increased by ignorance; those assume the most who know the least.
Gay.
Though Diogenes lived in a tub, there might have been, for aught I know, as much pride under his rage, as in the fine spun garments of the divine Plato.
Swift.
The seat of pride is in the heart, and only there; and if it be not there, it is neither in the look, not in the clothes.
Lord Clarendon.
If a proud man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is that he keeps his at the some time.
Swift.
As thou desirest the love of God and man, beware of pride. It is a tumor in the mind, that breaks and ruins all thine actions; a worm in thy treasury, that eats and ruins thine estate. It loves no man, and is beloved of none; it disparages another’s virtues by detraction, and thine own by vainglory. It is the friend of the flatterer, the mother of envy, the nurse of fury, the sin of devils, the devil of mankind. It hates superiors, scorns inferiors, and owns no equal. In short, till thou hate it, God hates thee.
Pride defects its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.
Bolingbroke.
We hear much of a decent pride, a becoming pride, a noble pride, a laudable pride. Can that be decent, of which we ought to be ashamed? Can that be becoming, of which God has set forth the deformity? Can that be noble which God resists and is determined to abase? Can that be laudable, which God calls abominable?
Cecil.
Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very man advantages.
Johnson.
I have been more and more convinced, the more I think of it, that, in general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. All the other passions do occasional good; but whenever pride puts in its word, everything goes wrong; and what it might really be desirable to do, quietly and innocently, it is mortally dangerous to do proudly.
Ruskin.
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.
Frederick Saunders.
Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep us his dignity. In gluttony there must be eating, in drunkenness there must be drinking; ‘tis not the eating, and ‘tis not the drinking that must be blamed, but the excess. So in pride.
Selden.
Pride, as it is compounded of the vanity and ill nature that dispose men to admire themselves, and contemn other men, retains its vigor longer than any other vice, and rarely expires but with life itself. Without the sovereign influence of God’s grace, men very rarely put off all the trappings of their pride till they who are about them put on their winding sheet.
Clarendon.
Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.
Johnson.
Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.
Franklin.
W.S. Gilbert (1836-1911) English librettist.
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes humility.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) English Poet.
Pride the first peer and president of hell.
Defoe.
“Tis the most nonsensical thing in the world for a man to be proud, since ‘tis in the meanest wretch’s power to mortify him. How uneasy have I seen my Lord all pride in the park, when the company turned their eyes from him and his gaudy equipage!.
I.B.Brown.
Pride brake the angels in heaven, and spoils all the heads we find cracked here.
Osborn.
Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels.
Colton.
Pride is to the character, like the attic to the house the highest part, and generally the most empty.
Pride is increased by ignorance; those assume the most who know the least.
Gay.
Though Diogenes lived in a tub, there might have been, for aught I know, as much pride under his rage, as in the fine spun garments of the divine Plato.
Swift.
The seat of pride is in the heart, and only there; and if it be not there, it is neither in the look, not in the clothes.
Lord Clarendon.
If a proud man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is that he keeps his at the some time.
Swift.
As thou desirest the love of God and man, beware of pride. It is a tumor in the mind, that breaks and ruins all thine actions; a worm in thy treasury, that eats and ruins thine estate. It loves no man, and is beloved of none; it disparages another’s virtues by detraction, and thine own by vainglory. It is the friend of the flatterer, the mother of envy, the nurse of fury, the sin of devils, the devil of mankind. It hates superiors, scorns inferiors, and owns no equal. In short, till thou hate it, God hates thee.
Pride defects its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.
Bolingbroke.
We hear much of a decent pride, a becoming pride, a noble pride, a laudable pride. Can that be decent, of which we ought to be ashamed? Can that be becoming, of which God has set forth the deformity? Can that be noble which God resists and is determined to abase? Can that be laudable, which God calls abominable?
Cecil.
Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very man advantages.
Johnson.
I have been more and more convinced, the more I think of it, that, in general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. All the other passions do occasional good; but whenever pride puts in its word, everything goes wrong; and what it might really be desirable to do, quietly and innocently, it is mortally dangerous to do proudly.
Ruskin.
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.
Frederick Saunders.
Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep us his dignity. In gluttony there must be eating, in drunkenness there must be drinking; ‘tis not the eating, and ‘tis not the drinking that must be blamed, but the excess. So in pride.
Selden.
Pride, as it is compounded of the vanity and ill nature that dispose men to admire themselves, and contemn other men, retains its vigor longer than any other vice, and rarely expires but with life itself. Without the sovereign influence of God’s grace, men very rarely put off all the trappings of their pride till they who are about them put on their winding sheet.
Clarendon.
Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.
Johnson.
Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.
Franklin.
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