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Pride Quotes (page 21)

George R. R. Martin quote: "A hedge knight must hold tight to his pride. Without it, he..."
A hedge knight must hold tight to his pride. Without it, he was no more than a sellsword George R. R. Martin
William Shakespeare quote: "He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his..."
He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle. William Shakespeare
The tyrant is a child of Pride. Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong. He plummets to the dust of hope. Sophocles
Wendell Berry quote: "The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride,..."
The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life. Wendell Berry
Milan Kundera quote: "To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her..."
To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it. Milan Kundera
I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone. Mark Twain
Faith, again, is doubless selected because it gives all the glory to God. It is of faith that it might be of grace, and it is of grace that there might be no boasting, for God cannot endure pride. "The proud he knoweth afar off". Psalm 138:6 Charles Spurgeon
Alexander Pope quote: "All this dread order break- for whom? for thee? Vile worm!- oh..."
All this dread order break- for whom? for thee? Vile worm!- oh madness! pride! impiety! Alexander Pope
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "Why, you are so eaten up with pride and vanity that you'll end..."
Why, you are so eaten up with pride and vanity that you'll end by eating up one another, that's what I prophecy. Fyodor Dostoevsky
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where, I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I don’t know any other way of loving. Pablo Neruda
I think it was the beginning of Mrs. Bond's unquestioning faith in me when she saw me quickly enveloping the cat till all you could see of him was a small black and white head protruding from an immovable cocoon of cloth. He and i were now facing each other, more or less eyeball to eyeball, and George couldn't do a thing about it. As i say, I rather pride myself on this little expertise, and even today my veterinary colleagues have been known to remark, "Old Herriot may be limited in many... James Herriot
I am writing this book because we're all going to die - In the loneliness of my own life, my father dead, my brother dead, my mother faraway, my sister and my wife far away, nothing here but my own tragic hands that once were guarded by a world, a sweet attention, that now are left to guide and disappear their own way into the common dark of all our deaths, sleeping in me raw bed, alone and stupid: with just this one pride and consolation: my broke heart in the general despair and opened up... Jack Kerouac
I think thus of Satan's pride: it is difficult for us on earth to comprehend it, and therefore, how easy it is to fall into error and partake of it, thinking, moreover, that we are doing something great and beautiful. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Creating some god for one's inspirations was always a good way to avoid accusations of pride should the scheme succeed, as well as the blame if did not. Margaret Atwood
We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of joy over the possibility of projecting dynamite bombs from flying machines upon helpless citizens. We are ready to hang, electrocute, or lynch anyone, who, from economic necessity, will risk his own life in the attempt upon that of some industrial magnate. Yet our hearts swell with pride at the thought that America is becoming the most powerful nation on earth, and that she... Emma Goldman

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