Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
Emily BrontëTags: pride
A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
C.S. LewisTags: aspiration pride self-improvement
Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.
Jorge Luis BorgesVanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
Jane AustenI am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
Alexandre DumasI could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
Jane AustenTags: forgiveness elizabeth-bennet pride injury mortification
I was like, Am I gay? Am I straight? And I realized...I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?
Margaret ChoTags: sexuality gay pride tramp bisexuality cho minority-groups parade promiscuity
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.
C.S. LewisTags: pride
We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.
William GoldingTags: nationalism pride poignant farcical
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Kahlil GibranTags: pride generosity
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