Pride Quotes

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.

Democritus

There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness, and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness, and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.

Johann Kaspar Lavate

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - - Avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Francesco Petrarch

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

Clive Staples Lewis

I pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value.

John Waters

There is this paradox in pride - It makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

C. C. Colton

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

Johnson