« All Pride Quotes · Samuel Johnson's Page
Pride Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
- Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself
- Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or…
- Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared…
- A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which…
- A coxcomb is ugly all over with the effectation of a fine gentleman.
- It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery.
- Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied.
- When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity,…
- When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity,…
- Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his…
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