Quotes About Pride

Pena que ele estivesse morto e não pudesse ver-se ao espelho, não pudesse constatar a vitória da filha, da digna família ultrajada.

Tu nunca vai mudar, meu bem. Tua única presunção é tua honra. Mas eu já comi ela uma vez, vou comer outra… Por mais professora que você seja, meu bem, na vadiação é minha aluna. E eu vim para acabar de te formar…

Quisiera entonces que no encuentren la lupa, que no miren de cerca lo difícil, eso no nuestro, tan desprecio, tan asco. Pero insisten y, como soy patriota, digo: "Sucede que los Incas". En donde queda, dí, dí qué le hicieron.

Los habitantes de Cuévano suelen mirar a su alrededor y después concluir: —Modestia aparte, somos la Atenas de por aquí.

Let others brag about the pages they have written; I'm proud of those I've read.

The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.

One can take pride in going as far in crime as a saint in virtue.

Cómo iba yo a creer en el pecado, una idea tan hija del orgullo? Si Dios es creador del Universo entero, ¿puede sentirse ofendido por una sabandija que le salió mal y que araña la superficie de un pequeño planeta? Hace falta tener una exageradísima idea de lo que es el hombre para creerle capaz de ofender a un infinito creador.

La historia de América, de los incas a acá, ha de enseñarse al dedillo, aunque no se enseñe la de los arcontes de Grecia. Nuestra Grecia es preferible a la Grecia que no es nuestra.

Ninguno me hable de penas porque yo penando vivo y naides se muestre altivo aunque en el estribo esté, que suele quedarse a pie el gaucho más alvertido

Reverenciará a su más cruel adversario, si éste se encumbra; desdeñará a su mejor amigo si nadie lo elogia. Su criterio carece de iniciativas. Sus admiraciones son prudentes.

I don't see why I should bow my head when I could hold it high, or place it in the hands of my enemies when I can defeat them.

She asks the dark to hide her That sunlight might not chide her As pride's pretentious daughter, And asks the dew to water Her lonely grave with tears

Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.

Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one.

He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.

let her be loved not only for her beauty and amiable character, but also for her strength of mind and loftiness of purpose, which enliven and raise the feeble and the timid and ward off all vain thoughts. Let her be the pride of her country and let her command respect.

The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.

Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it.

Better to die ten thousand deaths, Than wound my honour.

'Tis pride, rank pride, and haughtiness of soul: I think the Romans call it Stoicism.

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts old age is slow in both.

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

There is no passion that steals into the heart more imperceptibly and covers itself under more disguises than pride