Quotes About Pride

He had risked his freedom and his pride to buy her this, to acknowledge that part of her that everyone else seemed to want to get rid of.

That's it, said Cavuto. You're too much of a nerd to be gay. I'm contacting the committee. They'll revoke your rainbow flag and you will not be permitted anywhere near the parade.

Audrey felt herself blush again and suddenly, and for no reason she could think, thought of poor Lizzie from Pride and Prejudice, and then remembered how she also felt that Lizzie, nay, all of the Bennet women, in fact, all of the characters in P&P could have benefited from a good roundhouse kick to the head

After a moment, she felt Tornac pull her sleeve back down, and he said, That... is a very impressive scar. You should be proud of it. Confused, she looked back at him. Why? It's ugly, and I hate it. A faint smile played around the corners of his lips. Because a scar means you survived. It means you're tough and hard to kill. It means you lived. A scar is something to admire.

He had lost much that was dear to him, yet fate had given him rare and great gifts; for the first time, he was proud of simply who he was

And this? Aldhelm of Malmesbury. Listen to this page: 'Primitus pantorum procerum poematorum pio potissimum paternoque presertim privilegio panegiricum poemataque passim prosatori sub polo promulgatas.' ... The words all begin with the same letter! The men of my islands are all a bit mad, William said proudly.

Tüm a??klar gibi Baudlino da kibirli olmuÅŸtu.

It's hard to accept the idea that there cannot be an order in the universe because it would offend the free will of God and His omnipotence. So the freedom of God is our condemnation, or at least the condemnation of our pride.

Was this not the manifestation of the most perfect love, such as he professed to his Lady, loving from afar, renouncing the pride of domination?

Est ubi gloria nunc Babyloniae?

Però ho capito che per indurre un francese a riconoscere una tara della sua genìa basta parlargli male di un altro popolo, come a dire "noi polacchi abbiamo questo o quest'altro difetto" e, poiché non vogliono essere secondi a nessuno, neppure nel male, subito reagiscono con "oh no, qui in Francia siamo peggio" e via a sparlare dei francesi, sino a che non si rendono conto che li hai presi in trappola.

I remembered one of the many stories about him: some impudent young Parisian had made a malicious reference in his presence to the latest theories suggesting a link between primitive man and lower species. Dumas replied: "Yes, sir, I do indeed come from the monkey. But you, sir, are returning to one!

was one of the fixed laws of the universe that Americans could beat Europeans at anything, once they put their minds to it.

It was the "leisure-class" world, and the people in it were proud of the fact that they had never done and didn't know how to do anything useful. The farther back they could trace an ancestry which had never done it, the more distinguished they were.

For the first time in his life he began to experience a kind of true pride. He felt himself, so to speak, taking up space when he walked in the streets; and he wondered whether this was how other people felt all the time, without effort, all the secure people he met in London and Africa.

Their primary idea was the old Bengali idea of the Motherland, the idea that Bengal had given to the rest of India, Debu said: the idea that India had to be a country one could be proud of. The idea had decayed in Bengal since independence, Debu said. 'In my class the idea is still there, but it is a remnant of the past – considered an anachronism – and in the class above, the industrialists and businessmen, the idea exists more or less as a negative quantity.

On the white wall at the end of the room was a large oil painting of a European port, done in reds and yellows and blues. It was in slapdash modern style; the lady had painted it herself and signed it. She had given it pride of place in her main room. Yet she hadn't thought it worth the trouble of taking away.

I thought: How dare you lecture me about history and loyalty, you slave? We have paid bitterly for people like you. Who have you ever been loyal to, apart from yourself and your family and your caste?

Nothing warms the cockles of the heart more than the smug self-satisfaction of being right.

it has become more important than ever to look at the question of nationalism—of nationalistic contempt and nationalistic arrogance.

Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.

If you ask the great city, 'Who is this person?,' she will answer, 'He is my child.

What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.

Be it said in passing, that success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.