Pride feels no frost. [ Proverb ]

How pomp is followed! [ William Shakespeare ]

Pride is scarce ever cured. [ Proverb ]

By pride cometh contention. [ Bible ]

All pride is willing pride. [ William Shakespeare ]

Love and pride stock Bedlam. [ Proverb ]

Heresy is the school of pride. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Where pride begins, love ceases. [ Lavater ]

The never-failing vice of fools. [ Pope ]

Pride will spit in pride's face. [ Proverb ]

The proud man is forsaken of God. [ Plato ]

When pride rides, shame lacqueys. [ Proverb ]

Pride is both a virtue and a vice. [ Theodore Parker ]

Decency and decorum are not pride. [ Proverb ]

When pride thaws, look for floods. [ Bailey ]

Dark eyes - eternal soul of pride!
Deep life in all that's true!
Away, away to other skies!
Away over seas and sands!
Such eyes as those were never made
To shine in other lands. [ Leland ]

Beauty, the fading rainbow's pride. [ Halleck ]

Pride is the sworn enemy to content. [ Proverb ]

Pride and weakness are Siamese twins. [ Lowell ]

To lordlings proud I tune my lay,
Who feast in bower or hall;
Though dukes they be, to dukes I say,
That pride will have a fall. [ Gay ]

Ingratitude is the daughter of pride. [ Proverb ]

We rise in glory as we sink in pride. [ Young ]

Love's humility is love's true pride. [ Bayard Taylor ]

Modesty is sometimes an exalted pride. [ George Sand ]

Pride eradicates all vices but itself. [ Emerson ]

Nothing is more short-lived than pride. [ Ben Jonson ]

Pride goes before, shame follows after. [ Proverb ]

It is said the lion will turn and flee
From a maid in the pride of her purity. [ Byron ]

Some people are proud of their humility. [ Beecher ]

Here eglantine embalm'd the air,
Hawthorne and hazel mingled there;
The primrose pale, and violet flower.
Found in each cliff a narrow bower;
Fox-glove and nightshade, side by side.
Emblems of punishment and pride,
Group'd their dark hues with every stain
The weather-beaten crags retain. [ Sir Walter Scott ]

Great wits to madness nearly are allied;
Both serve to make our poverty our pride. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Pride may lurk under a thread-bare cloak. [ Proverb ]

O world, how apt the poor are to be proud! [ William Shakespeare ]

The proud are ever most provoked by pride. [ Cowper ]

Pride is to be feared even in good actions. [ Proverb ]

Who reasons wisely, is not therefore wise,
His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies. [ Pope ]

Proud men cannot bear with pride in others. [ Proverb ]

Pride, the first peer and president of hell. [ De Foe ]

Fancy and pride seek things at vast expense. [ Young ]

Insolence is pride with her mask pulled off. [ Proverb ]

Let pride go afore, shame will follow after. [ George Chapman ]

An avenging God closely follows the haughty. [ Seneca ]

High minds, of native pride and force.
Most deeply feel thy pangs. Remorse!
Fear, for their scourge, mean villains have,
Thou art the torturer of the brave! [ Scott ]

We rise by things that are 'neath our feet,
By what we have mastered of good and gain,
By the pride deposed, and passion slain,
And the vanquished ills that we hourly meet. [ J. G. Holland, Pseudonym: Timothy Titcomb ]

Of all the causes that conspire to blind
Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind.
What the weak head with strongest bias rules,
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. [ Pope ]

Pride loves no man, and is beloved of no man. [ Proverb ]

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt. [ B. Franklin ]

Yes - the same sin that overthrew the angels,
And of all sins most easily besets
Mortals the nearest to the angelic nature:
The vile are only vain; the great are proud. [ Byron ]

Hail, blooming Youth!
May all your virtues with your years improve,
Till in consummate worth you shine the pride,
Of these our days, and succeeding times,
A bright example. [ Wm. Somerville ]

Pride scorns the vulgar yet lies at its mercy. [ Proverb ]

At every trifle scorn to take offence;
That always shows great pride or little sense. [ Pope ]

Pride seldom leaves its master without a fall. [ Proverb ]

Pride goeth forth on horseback, grand and gay,
But cometh back on foot, and begs its way. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

It is pride, and not nature, that craves much. [ Proverb ]

How poor a thing is pride! when all, as
Differ but in their fetters, not their graves. [ Daniels ]

Gravity is the inseparable companion of pride. [ Goldsmith ]

Pride goes hated, cursed and abominated by all. [ Hammond ]

Family pride entertains many unsocial opinions. [ Zimmermann ]

Pride and conceit were the original sin of man. [ Le Sage ]

Pride joined with many virtues chokes them all. [ Proverb ]

In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies;
All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies.
Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes,
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell,
Aspiring to be angels men rebel;
And who but wishes to invert the laws
Of order, sins against the Eternal cause. [ Pope ]

And whether coldness, pride, or virtue, dignify
A woman; so she's good, what does it signify? [ Byron ]

What would the rose with all her pride be worth.
Were there no sun to call her brightness forth? [ Moore ]

Pride, of all others the most dangerous fault,
Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought. [ Roscommon ]

Pride scorns a director, and choler a counsellor. [ Proverb ]

Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine.
Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine
For me kind nature wakes her genial power,
Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower. [ Pope ]

It is good pride to desire to be the best of men. [ Proverb ]

Pride in prosperity turns to misery in adversity. [ Proverb ]

There is none so homely but loves a looking-glass. [ South ]

Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement. [ Amiel ]

Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.

Pride had rather go out of the way than go behind. [ Proverb ]

Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast flying cloud,
A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave,
Man passes from life to his rest in the grave. [ Wm. Knox ]

Backbiting oftener proceeds from pride than malice. [ Proverb ]

Distends with pride, and hardening in his strength. [ Milton ]

To be vain is rather a mark of humility than pride. [ Swift ]

Men say, By pride the angels fell from heaven.
By pride they reached a place from which they fell. [ Joaquin Miller ]

Pride hath no other glass to show itself but pride. [ William Shakespeare ]

Nothing more thankful than pride when complied with. [ Proverb ]

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great. [ Voltaire ]

When pride is on the saddle, shame is on the crupper. [ Proverb ]

To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak. [ Massillon ]

Trust not the treason of those smiling looks.
Until ye have their guileful trains well tried;
For they are like but unto golden hooks.
That from the foolish fish their baits do hide:
So she with flattering smiles weak hearts doth guide
Unto her love, and tempt to their decay;
Whom, being caught, she kills with cruel pride,
And feeds at pleasure on the wretched prey. [ Spenser ]

Her eye (I am very fond of handsome eyes).
Was large and dark, suppressing half its fire
Until she spoke, then through its soft disguise
Flashed an expression more of pride than ire,
And love than either; and there would arise,
A something in them which was not desire,
But would have been, perhaps, but for the soul,
Which struggled through and chastened down the whole. [ Byron ]

As in some Irish houses, where things are so-so,
One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show; -
But, for eating a rasher of what they take pride in,
They'd as soon think of eating the pan it is fried in. [ Goldsmith ]

It is not a sign of humility to declaim against pride. [ Proverb ]

The best manners are stained by the addition of pride. [ Claudian ]

Pride and poverty are ill met, yet often seen together. [ Proverb ]

Jealousy is sustained as often by pride as by affection. [ Colton ]

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. [ Ruskin ]

Pride requires very costly food - its keeper's happiness. [ Colton ]

The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride. [ Claudianus ]

No man had ever a point of pride but was injurious to him. [ Burke ]

I do hate a proud man, as I hate the engendering of toads. [ William Shakespeare ]

There is much proud humility and humble pride in the world. [ J. L. Basford ]

What is pride? a whizzing rocket That would emulate a star. [ Wordsworth ]

Pride wishes not to owe, and self-love does not wish to pay. [ La Roche ]

Pride increases our enemies, but puts our friends to flight. [ Proverb ]

Pride perceiving humility honorable often borrows her cloak. [ Proverb ]

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride. [ Joanna Baillie ]

The rose is wont with pride to swell, and ever seeks to rise. [ Goethe ]

They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud. [ Burton ]

A proud man uever shows his pride so much as when he is civil. [ Lord Greville ]

Pride will practice anything rather than let her port decline. [ Proverb ]

He is a minister who doth not behave with insolence and pride. [ Hitopadesa ]

It is pride in fashion, that puts humility out of countenance. [ Proverb ]

Charity and pride have different aims, yet both feed the poor. [ Proverb ]

Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised. [ Brickerstaff ]

Pride is the most uneasy thing in the world, and the most odious. [ Proverb ]

Dignity and pride are of too near relationship for intermarriage. [ Madame Deluzy ]

Pride becomes not a rich man, but is insupportable in a poor man. [ Proverb ]

What there are pride and covetousness in a man, two devils fight. [ Proverb ]

There is no pride on earth like the pride of intellect and science. [ Roswell D. Hitchcock ]

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. [ Bible ]

Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs. [ Addison ]

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance. [ Samuel Butler ]

Pride, in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit. [ Zimmermann ]

The pride of woman, natural to her, never sleeps until modesty is gone. [ Addison ]

Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, serves also to moderate it. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Pride is the consciousness of what one is, without contempt for others. [ Senac de Meilhan ]

In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance. [ Cicero ]

Their little minim forms arrayed in all the tricksy pomp of fairy pride. [ Drake ]

Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart. [ Addison ]

Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power. [ Hazlitt ]

Poverty destroys pride. It is difficult for an empty bag to stand upright. [ A. Dumas fils ]

Pride is increased by ignorance; those assume the most who know the least. [ Gay ]

Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, and supped with Infamy. [ Benjamin Franklin ]

When pride and presumption walk before, shame and loss follow very closely. [ Louis the Eleventh ]

When a proud man thinks best of himself, then God and man think worst of him. [ Horace Smith ]

New national pride will stir our souls, lift our sights, and heal our divisions. [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]

As for environments, the kingliest being ever born in the flesh lay in a manger. [ Chapin ]

Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by. [ Goldsmith ]

Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride. [ Richardson ]

Receive the gifts of fortune without pride, and part with them without reluctance. [ Antoninus ]

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty. [ Seneca ]

Earthly pride is like a passing flower, that springs to fall and blossoms but to die. [ Kirke White ]

He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble. [ Lavater ]

Vanity and pride sustain so close an alliance as to be often mistaken for each other. [ Gladstone ]

Strength with men is insensibility, greatness is pride, and calmness is indifference. [ George Sand ]

'Tis pride, rank pride, and haughtiness of soul: I think the Romans call it stoicism. [ Addison ]

Pearly pride is like the passing flower, that springs to fall, and blossoms but to die. [ H. K. White ]

How can there be pride in a contrite heart? Humility is the earliest fruit of religion. [ Hosea Ballou ]

All that the wisdom of the proud can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortune. [ Goldsmith ]

There is a certain noble pride through which merits shine brighter than through modesty. [ Richter ]

I pride myself in recognizing and upholding ability in every party and wherever I meet it. [ Beaconsfield ]

We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government. [ Franklin ]

Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense. [ Pope ]

Violent zeal for truth has a hundred to one odds to be either petulancy, ambition, or pride. [ Swift ]

All other passions do occasional good; but when pride puts in its word everything goes wrong. [ Ruskin ]

Nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; nor nobly, which is done in pride. [ Ruskin ]

Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degree of pride and moroseness. [ Dr. Watts ]

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

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so. [ Colton ]

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Who cries out on pride that can therein tax any private party? Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea? [ William Shakespeare ]

When a beautiful woman yields to temptation, let her consult her pride, though she forgets her virtue. [ Junius ]

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

Men very rarely put off the trappings of pride till they who are about them put on their winding-sheet. [ Clarendon ]

It is as natural for women to pride themselves in fine clothes, as it is for a peacock to spread his tail. [ Proverb ]

That man has advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity. [ Chamfort ]

The god of this world is riches, pleasure and pride, wherewith it abuses all the creatures and gifts of God. [ Luther ]

There is no room in the universe for the least contempt or pride; but only for a gentle and a reverent heart. [ James Martineau ]

The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning-place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. [ Bible ]

Like other tyrants, death delights to smite what, smitten, most proclaims the pride of power and arbitrary nod. [ Young ]

Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride, of strong sense and feeble reasons, of good eating and ill living. [ Jeremy Collier ]

She felt his flame; but deep within her breast, in bashful coyness or in maiden pride, the soft return concealed. [ Thomson ]

Pride, though it cannot prevent the holy affections of nature from beings felt, may prevent them from being shown. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest; he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers. [ Colton ]

There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence. [ Lavater ]

There are men who pride themselves on their insensibility to love: it is like boasting of having been always stupid. [ S. de Castres ]

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

There is no passion which steals into the heart more imperceptibly, and covers itself under more disguises, than pride. [ Addison ]

The seat of pride is in the heart, and only there; and if it be not there, it is neither in the look nor in the clothes. [ Clarendon ]

Pride seems to be equally distributed; the man who owns the carriage and the man who drives it seem to have it just alike. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Of all human actions, pride seldomest obtains its end; for, aiming at honor and reputation, it reaps contempt and derision. [ Walker ]

If it were ever allowable to forget what is due to superiority of rank, it would be when the privileged themselves remember it. [ Madame Swetchine ]

Deep is the sea, and deep is hell, but pride mineth deeper; it is coiled as a poisonous worm about the foundations of the soul. [ Tupper ]

It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity. We are rigorous to offenses as if we bad never offended. [ Blair ]

The peacock in all his pride does not display half the colors that appear in the garments of a British lady when she is dressed. [ Addison ]

Never did poesy appear so full of heaven to me as when I saw how it pierced through pride and fear to the lives of coarsest men. [ Lowell ]

Pride, in some particular disguise or other - often a secret to be proud himself - is the most ordinary spring of action among men. [ Steele ]

Of all the marvelous works of the Deity, perhaps there is nothing that angels behold with such supreme astonishment as a proud man. [ Colton ]

A noble life, crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empires of the earth. [ James A. Garfield ]

The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of: the last he does not concern himself about. [ Hazlitt ]

If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the proud man would think less of the place he occupies in his lifetime. [ Legouve ]

The sin of pride is the sin of sins, in which all subsequent sins are included, as in their germ; they are but the unfolding of this one. [ Trench ]

Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels. [ Colton ]

Give me but these, - a spirit tempest-tried, a brow unshrinking, and a soul of flame; the joy of conscious worth, its courage and its pride. [ R. T. Conrad ]

Prosperity is very liable to bring pride among the other goods with which it endows an individual; it is then that prosperity costs too dear. [ Hosea Ballou ]

The disesteem and contempt of others is inseparable from pride. It is hardly possible to overvalue ourselves but by undervaluing our neighbors. [ Clarendon ]

You who are ashamed of your poverty, and blush for your calling, are a snob: as are you who boast of your pedigree, or are proud of your wealth. [ Thackeray ]

Pride is a vice not only dreadfully mischievous in human society, but perhaps of all others, the most insuperable bar to real inward improvement. [ Mrs. E. Carter ]

Though Diogenes lived in a tub, there might be, for aught I know, as much pride under his rags, as in the fine-spun garments of the divine Plato. [ Swift ]

Pride's chickens have bonny feathers, but they are an expensive brood to rear. They eat up everything, and are always lean when brought to market. [ Alexander Smith ]

The pride of the heart is the attribute of honest men; pride of manners is that of fools; the pride of birth and rank is often the pride of dupes. [ Duclos ]

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. [ Sterne ]

Much complaining I often hear raised against the proud bearing of the great. The pride of the great will disappear as soon as we cease our cringing. [ Körner ]

Not in nature, but in man is all the beauty and the worth he sees. The world is very empty, and is indebted to this gilding, exalting soul for its pride. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Pride is like the beautiful acacia, that lifts its bead proudly above its neighbor plants - forgetting that it too, like them, has its roots in the dirt. [ Bovee ]

Pride is of such intimate connection with ingratitude that the actions of ingratitude seem directly resolvable into pride as the principal reason of them. [ South ]

Candor is the seal of a noble mind, the ornament, and pride of man, the sweetest charm of woman, the scorn of rascals and the rarest virtue of sociability. [ Bentzel-Sternaft ]

People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants. [ Macaulay ]

'Tis ever thus: indulgence spoils the base; Raising up pride, and lawless turbulence. Like noxious vapors from the fulsome marsh When morning shines upon it. [ Joanna Baillie ]

Measure not thyself by thy morning shadow, but by the extent of thy grave; and reckon thyself above the earth by the line thou must be contented with under it. [ Sir T. Browne ]

Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness. [ Lowell ]

When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads; but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full. [ Beecher ]

Charity feeds the poor, so does pride; charity builds an hospital, so does pride. In this they differ: charity gives her glory to God: pride takes her glory from man. [ Quarles ]

Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride. [ Emerson ]

The lofty pine is oftenest agitated by the winds - high towers rush to the earth with a heavier fall - and the lightning most frequently strikes the highest mountains. [ Horace ]

He that is proud eats up himself; pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle: and whatever praises itself but in the deed devours the deed in the praise. [ William Shakespeare ]

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear. [ Horace Mann ]

I have ventured like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, this many summers in a sea of glory, but far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride at length broke under me. [ Shakespeare ]

The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience, not in enterprises which the poets call heroic, and which are commonly the effects of interest, pride and worldly honor. [ Dryden ]

I would have every zealous man examine his heart thoroughly, and I believe he will often find that what he calls a zeal for his religion is either pride, interest, or ill-repute. [ Addison ]

A proud woman who has learned to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission, and looks down with severe superiority on all feminine assumption as unbecoming. [ George Eliot ]

It seems that nature, which has so wisely disposed our bodily organs with a view to our happiness, has also bestowed on us pride, to spare us the pain of being aware of our imperfections. [ Rochefoucauld ]

To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence: but to preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is pride. [ Confucius ]

It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other. [ Colton ]

Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others. [ Frederic Saunders ]

The blindness of men is the most dangerous effect of their pride; it seems to nourish and augment it: it deprives them of knowledge of remedies which can solace their miseries and can cure their faults. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Vanity is a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs, and chuck us over; but pride is a fine horse, that will carry us over the ground, and enable us to distance our fellow-travelers. [ Marryat ]

The sordid meal of the Cynics contributed neither to their tranquillity nor to their modesty. Pride went with Diogenes into his tub; and there he had the presumption to command Alexander the haughtiest of all men. [ Henry Home ]

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy. The charlatan is verbose and assumptive; the Pharisee is ostentatious, because he is a hypocrite. Pride is the master sin of the Devil; and the Devil is the father of lies. [ Chapin ]

When a man's pride is subdued it is like the sides of Mount Etna. It was terrible during the eruption, but when that is over and the lava is turned into soil, there are vineyards and olive trees which grow up to the top. [ Beecher ]

Pride is the common forerunner of a fall. It was the devil's sin. and the devil's ruin; and has been, ever since, the devil's stratagem, who, like an expert wrestler, usually gives a man a lift before he gives him a throw. [ South ]

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity, who drink of that flood of glory as of a river, and refresh our wings in it for future flight. [ Hazlitt ]

Worldly ambition is founded on pride or envy, but emulation, or laudable ambition, is actually founded in humility; for it evidently implies that we have a low opinion of our present attainments, and think it necessary to be advanced. [ Bishop Hall ]

In reality, there is perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, stifle it, mortify it as much as you please, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself. [ Franklin ]

I think half the troubles for which men go slouching in prayer to God are caused by their intolerable pride. Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges. We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses. [ Beecher ]

Genius, with all its pride in its own strength, is but a dependent quality, and cannot put forth its whole powers nor claim all its honors without an amount of aid from the talents and labors of others which it is difficult to calculate. [ Bryant ]

Love can take what shape he pleases; and when once begun his fiery inroad in the soul, how vain the after knowledge which his presence gives! We weep or rave; but still he lives, and lives master and lord, amidst pride and tears and pain. [ Barry Cornwall ]

Social dissipation, as witnessed in the ball-room, is the abettor of pride, the instigator of jealousv, it is the (sacrificial altar of health, it is the defiler of the soul, it is the avenue of lust and it is the curse of every tower in America. [ Talmage ]

Love may exist without jealousy, although this is rare: but jealousy may exist without love, and this is common; for jealousy can feed on that which is bitter no less than on that which is sweet, and is sustained by pride as often as by affection. [ Colton ]

Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. [ Franklin ]

Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride of one will offend the pride of another, but to the favor of the covetous bring money, and nothing is denied. [ Johnson ]

As Plato entertained some friends in a room where there was a couch richly ornamented, Diogenes came in very dirty, as usual, and getting upon the couch, and trampling on it, said, I trample upon the pride of Plato. Plato mildly answered, But with greater pride, Diogenes! [ Erasmus ]

In beginning the world, if you don't wish to get chafed at every turn, fold up your pride carefully, put it under lock and key, and only let it out to air upon grand occasions. Pride is a garment all stiff brocade outside, all grating sackcloth on the side next to the skin. [ Lytton ]

Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of. [ Pascal ]

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner time; keep back the tears, and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, Oh, nothing! Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts, not to hurt others. [ George Eliot ]

There is no one passion which all mankind so naturally give in to as pride, nor any other passion which appears in such different disguises. It is to be found in all habits and all complexions. Is it not a question whether it does more harm or good in the world, and if there be not such a thing as what we may call a virtuous and laudable pride? [ Steele ]

There are so many things to lower a man's top-sails - he is such a dependent creature - he is to pay such court to his stomach, his food, his sleep, his exercise - that, in truth, a hero is an idle word. Man seems formed to be a hero in suffering, not a hero in action. Men err in nothing more than in the estimate which they make of human labor. [ Cecil ]

It is the nature of man to be proud, when man by nature hath nothing to be proud of. He more adorneth the creature than he adoreth the Creator; and makes not only his belly his god, but his body. I am ashamed of their glory whose glory is their shame. If nature will needs have me to be proud of something, I will be proud only of this, that I am proud of nothing. [ Arthur Warwick ]

Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps be termed a too high opinion of ourselves founded on the overrating of certain qualities that we do actually possess; whereas vanity is more easily satisfied, and can extract a feeling of self-complacency from qualifications that are imaginary. [ Colton ]

Since I have known God in a saving manner, painting, poetry, and music have had charms unknown to me before. I have received what I suppose is a taste for them, or religion has refined my mind and made it susceptible of impressions from the sublime and beautiful. O, how religion secures the heightened enjoyment of those pleasures which keep so many from God, by their becoming a source of pride! [ Henry Martyn ]

What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings had their embalmed bodies preserved in massive pyramids, to obtain an earthly immortality. In the seventeenth century they were sold as quack medicines, and now they are burnt for fuel! The Egyptian mummies, which Cambyses or time hath spared, avarice now consumeth. Mummy is become merchandise. [ Whipple ]

The names of great painters are like passing-bells: in the name of Velasquez you hear sounded the fall of Spain; in the name of Titian, that of Venice; in the name of Leonardo, that of Milan; in the name of Raphael, that of Rome. And there is profound justice in this, for in proportion to the nobleness of the power is the guilt of its use for purposes vain or vile; and hitherto the greater the art, the more surely has it been used, and used solely, for the decoration of pride or the provoking of sensuality. [ Ruskin ]

Pride looks back upon its past deeds, and calculating with nicety what it has done, it commits itself to rest; whereas humility looks to that which is before, and discovering how much ground remains to be trodden, it is active and vigilant. Having gained one height, pride looks down with complacency on that which is beneath it; humility looks up to a higher and yet higher elevation. The one keeps us on this earth, which is congenial to its nature; the other directs our eye, and tends to lift us up to heaven. [ James McCosh ]

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. I wasn't myself, I started poor. I hadn't a single moral. There is hardly a man in this house that is poorer than I was then. Yes, I started like that - the world before me, not a moral in the slot. Not even an insurance moral. I can remember the first one I ever got. I can remember the landscape, the weather, the - I can remember how everything looked. It was an old moral, an old second-hand moral, all out of repair, and didn't fit, anyway. But if you are careful with a thing like that, and keep it in a dry place, and save it for processions, and Chautauquas, and World's Fairs, and so on, and disinfect it now and then, and give it a fresh coat of whitewash once in a while, you will be surprised to see how well she will last and how long she will keep sweet, or at least inoffensive. When I got that mouldy old moral, she had stopped growing, because she hadn't any exercise; but I worked her hard, I worked her Sundays and all. Under this cultivation she waxed in might and stature beyond belief, and served me well and was my pride and joy for sixty-three years; then she got to associating with insurance presidents, and lost flesh and character, and was a sorrow to look at and no longer competent for business. She was a great loss to me. Yet not all loss. I sold her - ah, pathetic skeleton, as she was - I sold her to Leopold, the pirate King of Belgium; he sold her to our Metropolitan Museum, and it was very glad to get her, for without a rag on, she stands 57 feet long and 16 feet high, and they think she's a brontosaur. Well, she looks it. They believe it will take nineteen geological periods to breed her match. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]