• In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  4.2 · 42 votes · 109 reads

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• 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.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.8 · 55 votes · 21 reads

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• Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

  

  Susan Sontag

  AuthorAmerican1933 · 20th century

  4.4 · 16 votes · 51 reads

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• Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  3.9 · 29 votes · 120 reads

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• Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  5.0 · 27 votes · 134 reads

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• Pride and poverty don't get along, but often live together.

  

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  Anonymous

  3.6 · 12 votes · 130 reads

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• Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  5.0 · 50 votes · 9 reads

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• Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  4.5 · 20 votes · 121 reads

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

  

  Joseph Addison

  PoetEnglish1672 · 17th century

  4.8 · 47 votes · 110 reads

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• Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.

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  Anonymous

  3.3 · 25 votes · 112 reads

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• Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

  

  Benedict de Spinoza

  PhilosopherDutch1632 · 17th century

  3.4 · 13 votes · 83 reads

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

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.7 · 39 votes · 199 reads

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• 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.

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  4.0 · 11 votes · 195 reads

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• Pride is the mask of one's own faults.

  

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  3.1 · 49 votes · 149 reads

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• Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

  

  Thomas de Quincey

  AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century

  3.6 · 19 votes · 82 reads

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• Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.6 · 28 votes · 48 reads

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• Pride the first peer and president of hell.

  

  Daniel Defoe

  AuthorBritish1660 · 17th century

  3.1 · 14 votes · 45 reads

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• Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

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  Emily Bronte

  PoetBritish1818 · 19th century

  4.8 · 7 votes · 37 reads

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• Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.

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  Fred A. Allen

  ComedianAmerican1894 · 19th century

  3.1 · 44 votes · 77 reads

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• Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 33 votes · 182 reads

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• Temper gets you into trouble. Pride keeps you there.

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  Anonymous

  4.6 · 14 votes · 57 reads

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• The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  4.6 · 62 votes · 109 reads

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• The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.

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  Fred A. Allen

  ComedianAmerican1894 · 19th century

  3.4 · 32 votes · 107 reads

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• The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

  

  George Santayana

  PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century

  3.6 · 12 votes · 22 reads

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• 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.

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  Iris Murdoch

  NovelistBritish1919 · 20th century

  3.8 · 56 votes · 3 reads

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• There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  3.1 · 40 votes · 63 reads

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

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  4.6 · 29 votes · 100 reads

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• 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.

  

  Carl Gustav Jung

  PsychiatristSwiss1875 · 19th century

  4.6 · 50 votes · 129 reads

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• We should be ashamed of our pride, but never proud of our shame.

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 16 votes · 118 reads

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