Do not hurry over punishments and do not be pleased and do not be proud of your power to punish.
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.
The lintel low enough to keep out pomp and pride:
The threshold high enough to turn deceit aside.
Imagine if every species named itself after its greatest flaw. We could name our species arrogance.
Poor Nations are hungry, and rich Nations are proud, and Pride and Hunger will ever be at Variance.
We had our pride shattered, and without humility there can be no humanity.