Quotes About Pride

It is a sad mission to cut through and destroy with the scissors of analysis the delicate and iridescent veils with which our proud mediocrity clothes itself.

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority, otherwise called ambition.

If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.

If there were an international butt competition, Eric would win, hands down—or cheeks up.

It is good sometimes that the happy of this world should learn, were it only to humble their foolish pride for an instant, that there are higher, wider, and rarer joys than theirs.

Gainfully unemployed, very proud of it, too.

Lucien was exultant over his design, brimming with pride as if he'd just won the Prix de Rome. Delighted with his own ingenuity, he experienced the same sense of exhilaration that had swept over him at the rue Galilée.

Y-Y-Yeah, and I d-do my own carpentry work, too." I was embarrassed because I was stammering. "That's what I wanted to hear. I understand you're a brother of mine." "That's right." I was keeping my sentences short and my words few. "Local 107. Since 1947." "Our friend speaks very highly of you.

The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail our pride supports us; when we succeed, it betrays us.

France cannot be France without greatness.

The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends.

The champions of liberty have the medal for any necklace.

The champions of liberty have the medal for any necklace. (Les champions de la liberte - Ont la medaille pour tout collier)

The pride blurs us the eye.It is our alcohol. (L'orgueil nous brouille l'oeil. Il est notre alcool)

There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.

Break their hearts my pride and hope, break their hearts and have no mercy.

And yet I love him. I love him so much and so dearly, that when I sometimes think my life may be but a weary one, I am proud of it and glad of it. I am proud and glad to suffer something for him, even though it is of no service to him, and he will never know of it or care for it.

When he has nothing else to do, he can always contemplate his own greatness. It is a considerable advantage to a man, to have so inexhaustible a subject.

The ties that bind the wealthy and the proud to home may be forged on earth, but those which link the poor man to his humble hearth are of truer metal and bear the stamp of Heaven.

Doctor, they are very proud, these Nobles; but we common dogs are proud too, sometimes. They plunder us, outrage us, beat us, kill us; but we have a little pride left, sometimes.

Your haughty religious people would have held their heads up to see me as I am tonight, and preached of flames and vengeance,' cried the girl. 'Oh, dear lady, why ar'n't those who claim to be God's own folks as gentle and as kind to us poor wretches as you, who, having youth, and beauty, and all that they have lost, might be a little proud instead of so much humbler?

Indeed, there was a frankness in his face, an honesty, and an undisguised show of his pride in her, and his love for her, which were, to me, the best of good looks.