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As proud as Lucifer.
Author: Philip James Bailey
Source: Festus (sc. A Country Town)
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Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a
fall.
Author: Bible
Source: Proverbs (ch. XVI, v. 18)
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Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it;
I like to be despised.
Author: Isaac Bickerstaff
Source: The Hypocrite (act V, sc. 1)
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They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud.
Author: Robert Burton
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, memb. 3, subsect. 14)
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Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.
Author: George Chapman
Source: Eastward Ho!
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Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.
Author: George Chapman
Source: Eastward Ho!
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Pride (of all others the most dang'rous fault)
Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.
Author: Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscomon
Source: Essay on Translated Verse (l. 161)
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Lord of human kind.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Spanish Friar (act II, sc. 1)
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Too rigid scruples are concealed pride.
[Ger., Zu strenge Ford'rung ist verborgner Stolz.]
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Source: Iphigenia auf Tauris (IV, 4, 120)
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Pride in their port, defiance in their eye,
I see the lords of humankind pass by.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: The Traveller (l. 327)
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Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast flying cloud,
A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave,
Man passes from life to his rest in the grave.
Author: William Knox
Source: Mortality, Lincoln's favorite hymn
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What the weak head with strongest bias rules,
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Essay on Criticism (l. 203)
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In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies;
All quit their sphere and rush into the skies.
Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes,
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 124)
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Thus unlamented pass the proud away,
The gaze of fools and pageant of a day;
So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow
For others' good, or melt at others' woe.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Memory of an Unfortunate Lady (l. 4)
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Is this that haughty, gallant, gay Lothario?
Author: Nicholas Rowe
Source: The Fair Penitent (act V, sc. 1, l. 37), taken from Massinger's "Fatal Dowry"
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In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
- John Ruskin,
Author: John Ruskin
Source: True and Beautiful--Morals and Religion--Conception of God (p. 426)
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Why, who cries out on pride
That can therein tax any private party?
Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea
Till that the weary very means do ebb?
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: As You Like It (Jaques at II, vii)
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O, this life
Is nobler than attending for a check,
Richer than doing nothing for a robe,
Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk:
Such pain the cap of him that makes him fine
Yet keeps his book uncrossed.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Cymbeline (Belarius at III, iii)
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He is so plaguy proud that the death-tokens of it
Cry 'No recovery.'
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Ulysses at II, iii)
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He that is proud eats up himself. Pride is his own glass, his
own trumpet, his own chronicle; and whatever praises itself but
in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Agamemnon at II, iii)
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I do not hate a proud man, as I do hate the engendering of toads.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Ajax at II, iii)
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It may do good; pride hath no other glass
To show itself but pride, for supple knees
Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Ulysses at III, iii)
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She bears a duke's revenues on her back,
And in her heart she scorns our poverty.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part II (Margaret, Queen to King Henry at I, iii)
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I have ventured,
Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders,
This many summers in a sea of glory,
But far beyond my depth. My high-blown pride
At length broke under me, and now has left me,
Weary and old with service, to the mercy
Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Wolsey at III, ii)
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O world, how apt the poor are to be proud.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Olivia at III, i)
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Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: None
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Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
Author: Fulton John Sheen
Source: None
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There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
Source: None
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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.
Author: Iris Murdoch
Source: None
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The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of; the last he does not concern himself about.
Author: William Hazlitt
Source: None
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And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Source: None
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What is pride? A whizzing rocket that would emulate a star.
Author: William Wordsworth
Source: None
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Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: None
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Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.
Author: C. S. Lewis
Source: None
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Source: None
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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.
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Source: None
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Pride is the mask of one's own faults.
Author: Jewish Proverb
Source: None
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To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak.
Author: Jean Baptiste Masillon
Source: None
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Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
Author: Fulton J. Sheen
Source: None
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One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
Author: Josh Billings
Source: None
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There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.
Author: Elbert Hubbard
Source: None
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The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
Author: Voltaire
Source: None
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Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: None
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There is this paradox in pride--it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
Source: None
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The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
Author: George Santayana
Source: None
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Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, supped with Infamy.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: None
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