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Pride
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“... the best of all good friends is pride.”
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“The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.”
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“Supreme pride is supreme / renunciation. I did not want / to be the dead star / that absorbs borrowed light to revive itself.”
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“... all the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.”
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“Vanity 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.”
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“Pride never sleeps. The principle at least is always awake. An intemperate man is sometimes sober, but a proud man is never humble.”
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“Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.”
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“My pride had been starched by a family who assumed unlimited authority in its own affairs.”
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“'The whole of this unfortunate business,' said Dr. Lyster, 'has been the result of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE.'”
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“When you've just made the most complete fool of yourself, you feel the need of a specially high horse to ride.”
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“Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.”
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“Swallowing your pride isn't lethal. It might upset your stomach for a few minutes, but the ultimate result may be the life of your dreams. And that's a result that's worth every rejection you encounter.”
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“The self-made man is often proud of a poor job.”
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“Pride is never sinful when it is Justice.”
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“Pride was my wilderness, and the demon that led me there was fear.”
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“Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last; and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another ...”
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“A woman who could bend to grief, / But would not bow to shame.”
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“Pamper'd vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.”
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“Miss Potune a Lady of my acquaintance praises me dreadfully. I repeated something out of Deen Swift and she said I was fit for the stage, and you may think I was primmed up with majestick Pride ...”
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“It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that there is no passion so deeply rooted in human nature as that of pride.”
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“Pride is a sweetmeat, to be savoured in small pieces; it makes for a poor feast.”
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“The 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 even murderous obsession.”