Pride quotes

The Bible

Old Testament: Proverbs ch. 16 v. 18

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

Blake William 1757-1827

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.
The lust of the goat is the bounty of God.
The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.
The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

Colton Charles Caleb c. 1780-1832

There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

Denham Sir John 1615-1669

‘To Richard Fanshaw'

Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate,
That few, but such as cannot write, translate.

Fuller Thomas 1608-1661

Pride, perceiving humility honourable, often borrows her cloak.

Fuller Thomas 1608-1661

Pride had rather go out of the way than go behind.

Gay John 1685-1732

Dione

Behold the victim of Parthenia's pride!
He saw, he sighed, he loved, was scorned and died.

Gilbert W. S. 1836-1911

The Mikado

I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. Consequently, my family pride is something in-conceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

Goldsmith Oliver 1730-1774

The Traveller

Pride in their port, defiance in their eye,
I see the lords of human kind pass by.

Greene Graham 1904-1991

The Quiet American

If only it were possible to love without injury - fidelity isn't enough ... The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body to posses another person without pride or to be possessed without humiliation.

Johnson Samuel 1709-1784

Boswell - Life (of Jeremiah Markland)

I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark.

Johnson Samuel 1709-1784

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

MacDiarmid Hugh 1892-1978

A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle

He's no a man ava',
And lacks a proper pride,
Gin less than a' the world
Can ser' him for a bride!

Meyer Sir Anthony

(speaking against the Falklands War)

I question the right of that great Moloch, national sovereignty, to burn its children to save its pride.

Newman John Henry, Cardinal 1801-1890

‘Lead, kindly Light'

I loved the garish day, and spite of fears,
Pride ruled my will: remember not past years.

Pope Alexander 1688-1744

An Essay on Man

Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes,
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

Pope Alexander 1688-1744

An Essay on Man
All nature is but art, unknown to thee;
All chance, direction, which thou canst not see;
All discord, harmony, not understood;
All partial evil, universal good:
And, spite of Pride, in erring Reason's spite,
One truth is clear, ‘Whatever IS, IS RIGHT'.

Proverbs and Sayings

Jewish