Quotes About Pride

Proud men might shout that they would sooner die free than live as slaves, but pride was cheap. When the steel struck the flint, such men were rare as dragon's teeth; elsewise the world would not have been so full of slaves. There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave, the dwarf reflected. Their choice may be between bondage and death, but the choice is always there.

Men will always underestimate you, he said, and their pride will make them want to vanquish you quickly, lest it be said that a woman tried them sorely. Let them spend their strength in furious attacks, whilst you conserve your own. Wait and watch, girl, wait and watch.

They hate you because you act like you're better than they are...." "[they are] Four that you humiliated in the yard. Four who are probably afraid of you. I've watched you fight. It's not training with you. Put a good edge on your sword, and they'd be dead meat; you know it, I know it, they know it. You leave them nothing. You shame them. Does that make you proud?

You know the words, but you are too proud to serve. A servant must be humble and obedient.

Cersei Lannister: I shall wear this as a badge of honor. Robert Barathon: Wear it in silence or I'll honor you again.

Mine is the blood of the dragon.

Pride goes before a fall.

A toad grows wings and thinks he's a bloody dragon.

I have more concern for my nephew's welfare than for Lannister pride.

Would you rather die with honor intact or live with it besmirched?

Would you throw your life away for pride?

But peasant's pride is lordling's shame.

Perhaps he did not think himself worthy of the King's Tower, or perhaps he did not care. That was his mistake, the false humility of youth that is itself a sort of pride. It was never wise for a ruler to eschew the trappings of power, for power itself flows in no small measure from such trappings.

She is of the north. She deserves better than a butcher.

The Lannisters may have their pride," she told Mya, "but the Tullys are born with better sense.

Sólo un tonto se humilla a sí mismo, habiendo tantos hombres en el mundo dispuestos a encargarse de esa tarea

Begging for help never gets you any.

The Lannisters never declined, graciously or otherwise. The Lannisters took what was offered.

That was his mistake, the false humility of youth that is itself a sort of pride.

Alyn carried the Stark banner. When she saw him rein in beside Lord Beric to exchange words, it made Sansa feel ever so proud. Alyn was handsomer than Jory had been; he was going to be a knight one day. The Tower of the Hand

I will not suffer to be called a whore!" Why, sister, he never claims Jaime paid you.

A hedge knight must hold tight to his pride. Without it, he was no more than a sellsword.

The Lannisters never declined, graciously or otherwise. The Lannisters took what was offered. Farms

Snow still chose to dwell behind the armory, in a pair of modest rooms previously occupied by the Watch's late blacksmith. Perhaps he did not think himself worthy of the King's Tower, or perhaps he did not care. That was his mistake, the false humility of youth that is itself a sort of pride. It was never wise for a ruler to eschew the trappings of power, for power itself flows in no small measure from such trappings.