Dies Quote by Bernard Cornwell

“The preachers tell us that pride is a great sin, but the preachers are wrong. Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is…

— Bernard Cornwell

Pride, like humility, is destroyed by one's insistence that he possesses it.

— Kenneth Clark

Pride divides the men, humility joins them.

— Socrates

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

— Henry Bolingbroke

Pride is a fault that great men blush not to own: it is the ennobled offspring of self-love; though, it must be confessed, grave…

— Joanna Baillie

Humility saves man: pride makes him lose his way.

— Pope Francis

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

— Charles Caleb Colton

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself

— Samuel Johnson

Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.

— Andrew Murray

Pride is a wound and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open that wound again and again.…

— Michael Ayrton

Never does any pride enter the heart of a man except that his intelligence decreases by the same amount.

— Muhammad al-Baqir

Pride is the parent of destruction; pride eats the mind and the heart and the soul alive.

— Anne Rice