Quotes About Pride

Man's insulting God is not reversed by our insulting man.

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

I remember filling my car up in London when an 85-year-old man said to me, 'You've done our age group proud.' That made me laugh. I'm not quite there yet!

There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it.

God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money, Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places.

Men had been living a proud life, having felt no need for the spirit-until Christianity invented it.

A proud man never shows his pride so much as when he is civil.

Man's worst ill is stubbornness of heart.

It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.

Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.

He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.

We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.

Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.

I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head.

If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.

The man who insists he as good as anybody, believes he is better.

Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order.

When a man is proud because he can understand and explain the writings of Chrysippus, say to yourself, 'if Chrysippus had not written obscurely, this man would have had nothing to be proud of.'

The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against others.

Was it not through pride that the devil became the devil? Christ wanted to serve. The devil wanted to rule. Christ wanted to bring men to where He was. The devil wanted to be above men.

Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three- piece suit.

Haughtiness is the high heel shoe of the low men!