Quotes:A portion of mankind take
pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.
View quotes by HoraceIt is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
'
Pride and Prejudice'
View quotes by Jane AustenI will always remember my playing career with fond memories and though there may be the odd regret the main feeling is one of immense
pride.
View quotes by Tom FinneyThere is a secret
pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
View quotes by William HazlittWe Caskodens take great
pride in our ancestry. Some persons, I know, hold all that to be totally un-Solomonlike and the height of vanity, but, they, usually, have no ancestors of whom to be proud
View quotes by Charles MajorPride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness
View quotes by James Russell LowellIt's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home - it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it.
Pride reinforces love.
View quotes by Margaret TrumanI question the right of that great Moloch, national sovereignty, to burn its children to save its
pride. (Speaking against the Falklands War, 1982)
View quotes by Sir Anthoney MeyerThe sin of
pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.
View quotes by Iris MurdochOf all the talking points which make international sport fascinating, selecting a team to represent the country surely takes
pride of place.
View quotes by E W SwantonEgypt's might is tumbled down
Down a-down the deeps of thought;
Greece is fallen and Troy town,
Glorious Rome hath lost her crown,
Venice'
pride is nought.
View quotes by Mary ColeridgeBooks are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness,
pride, or design in their conversation.
View quotes by W B YeatsThere is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of
pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.
View quotes by Walter LippmannGenerosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from
pride or fear.
View quotes by Horace MannDon't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom
pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
View quotes by Samuel JohnsonI feel tremendous
pride in coaching Wales and gratitude at the chance to work at the highest level. Wales is the sleeping giant of world rugby, I want to achieve potential.
View quotes by Warren GatlandIt is no longer possible to escape men. Farewell to the monsters, farewell to the saints. Farewell to
pride. All that is left is men.
View quotes by Jean Paul SartreMisquotation is, in fact, the
pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.
View quotes by Hesketh PearsonI will probably leave [Edgbaston] with the most vivid memory that I will replay in my mind for the rest of my life.
There's maybe a sense of
pride but initially there's disappointment. In a lot of ways it's cruel to get that close and just miss out in the end. [on losing to England, Edgbaston, 2005 Ashes]
View quotes by Michael KasprowiczThe greatest
pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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