Quotes About Pride

It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.

Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, "Let no more riches enter!"

Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction.

Even a hare, the weakest of animals, may insult a dead lion.

Pride goes before destruction.

Borrowed plumes.

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.

There was only one thing about his own appearance which really pleased Hercule Poirot, and that was the profusion of his moustaches, and the way they responded to grooming and treatment and trimming. They were magnificent. He knew of nobody else who had any moustache half as good.

E un fenomen foarte des întâlnit. Dac? v?d vreodat? pe cineva care pare s? aib? o p?rere foarte bun? despre sine ?i se laud? f?r? încetare, ?tiu de fiecare dat? c? undeva exist? un tainic sentiment de inferioritate.

A woman should have a certain respect for herself and not submit to humiliation

You do not know the force of the German propaganda. It appeals to something in man, some desire or lust for power. These people are ready to betray their country not for money, but in a kind of megalomaniacal pride in what they themselves , were going to achieve for that country. In every land it has been the same. It is the Cult of Lucifer- Lucifer, Son of the Morning. Pride and desire for personal glory !

It has been my experience, that women possess little or no pride where love affairs are concerned. Pride is a quality often on their lips, but not apparent in their actions.

It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in their cap.

Even the most sober of us is liable to have his head turned by success.

Pride comes in handy for masking one's feelings?it doesn't stop you from feeling them

Shaitana was a man who prided himself on his Mephistophelian attitude to life. He was a man of great vanity. He was also a stupid man-that's why he is dead.

People are so proud of their wickedness. Odd, isn't it, that people who are good are never proud of it?

I refuse to have my character improved.

It has been my experience," said Mr. Treves, "that women possess little or no pride where love affairs are concerned. Pride is a quality often on -their lips, but not apparent in their actions.

I have, let me confess it in all humility, a pitiful human wish that someone should know just how clever I have been…

Such a one is encased, is he not, in an armour—such an armour! The armour of the crusaders was nothing to it—an armour of arrogance, of pride, of complete self-esteem. This armour, it is in some ways a protection, the arrows, the everyday arrows of life glance off it. But there is this danger; Sometimes a man in armour might not even know he was being attacked. He will be slow to see, slow to hear—slower still to feel.

The less their ability, the more their conceit.

There are 3 reasons for why you can't beat me. First, I'm better looking than you are. Second, your blows are too light. And third, there's nothing in the world I can't tear up.