Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Pride Quotes
Shakespeare leads, with Pope, John Calvin, Nietzsche and Benjamin Franklin behind him. Samuel Johnson, in The Rambler (1750), is here for a different kind of pride: no place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. Wordsworth has two passages quoted in Bartlett’s, one on never blending our pleasure or our pride with the sorrow of the meanest thing that feels, the other on the fuming vanities of earth.
“It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels” is credited to Augustine of Hippo and is disputed. The notes trace it to a medieval collection compiled around 1306 and to a Victorian anthology. It is the only entry on the page with a flag.
'Tis pride, rank pride, and haughtiness of soul:
I think the Romans call it Stoicism.
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
Pride is the master-sin of the devil; and the devil is the father of lies.
Surfeit begets insolence, when prosperity comes to a bad man.
Your arrogance in your manhood prevents you from understanding.
Pryde will have a fall;
For pryde goeth before and shame commeth after.
What is your sex's earliest, latest care,
Your heart's supreme ambition?—To be fair.
Pride and Vanity have built more Hospitals than all the Virtues together.