2,116 Quotes About Pride

moral voices can also become sanctimonious bullies.

He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It is only the last and wildest kind of courage that can stand on a tower before ten thousand people and tell them that twice two is four.

Furniture or gold can be taken away from you, but knowledge and a new language can easily be taken from one place to the other, and nobody can take them away from you.

The taller you stand, the more possibilities you see.

Her scars were her jewels she sported with pride.

The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.

The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.

The only crime is pride.

Nothing is more scandalous than a man that is proud of his humility.