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Pride Quotes by Alexander Pope
- At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
- Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in…
- Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than…
- In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes,…
- Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
- Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
- Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to…
- Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE,…
- Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors…
- Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise; His pride in reasoning, not in acting, lies
- All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal…
- At every trifle, scorn to take offence; that always shows great pride, or little sense
- At every trifle take offence, that always shows great pride or little sense.
More Pride Quotes
- Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how to do… — Bryan Adams
- I really like my life right now. I have friends around me all the time. I’ve started painting more. I’ve been working… — Taylor Swift
- Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation... — Seneca the Younger
- It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. — Saint Augustine
- A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life. — Walter Bagehot
- Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse. — Abu Bakr
- Being a Barrymore didn't help me, other than giving me a great sense of pride and a strange spiritual sense that I… — Drew Barrymore