Quotes about pride
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‘Tis pride, rank pride, and haughtiness of soul:
I think the Romans call it Stoicism.
Joseph Addison1672–1719Cato, A Tragedy (1713)
William Hazlitt1778–1830The Plain Speaker (1826)Those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30Gospel of Luke, 18:14 NIV
John Ruskin1819–1900Modern Painters (1843-1860), Volume IV, part V, chapter III, section 22 (1856)
Simone Weil1909–1943Simone Weil: An Anthology (1986), p. 35
Florence Nightingale1820–1910Letter (5 September 1857), quoted in The Life of Florence Nightingale (1913) by Edward Tyas Cook, p. 369
Rabindranath Tagore1861–1941Stray Birds (1916), 57
Michel de Montaigne1533–1592Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Book II, Ch. 17. Of Presumption
George Santayana1863–1952The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. II, Reason in Society- William Hazlitt1778–1830The Plain Speaker (1826)
Edward Bulwer-Lytton1803–1873Zanoni (1842), Book IV, Chapter IVSelf-respect — The secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)I’ve never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return …
George Eliot1819–1880Daniel Deronda (1876)
