2,116 Quotes About Pride

  • Author Gary Ackerman
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    Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.

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  • Author Henri Frédéric Amiel
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    I do not deny the rights of democracy, but I have no illusions as to the uses that will be made of those rights so long as wisdom is rare and pride abundant

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  • Author Jane Austen
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    I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.

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  • Author Jane Austen
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    It taught me to hope," said he, "as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before." Mr. Darcy - Pride and Prejudice

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  • Author Jane Addams
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    To attain individual morality in an age demanding social morality, to pride one's self on the results of personal effort when the time demands social adjustment, is utterly to fail to apprehend the situation.

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  • Author Jane Austen
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    It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend.

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  • Author Jane Austen
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    There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness of resentment, which had kept him from trying to regain her when thrown in his way.

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  • Author Jane Austen
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    It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley.

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