Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.
Alexander Pope quote on Pride is still
There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills.
Douglas Hurd quote on German pride
I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom – one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
John Keats | definition of a proud man
There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
George Eliot – Fault, Pride
We are rarely proud when we are alone.
Voltaire – Pride
And it is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely.
G.K. Chesterton – Pride, Humility
Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others.
Samuel Johnson – Pride, Envy
It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.
John Ruskin – Pride
A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
