Character Quote by Claudius Claudianus Download Open image “The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride.” — Claudius Claudianus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Inspirational Nobility Pride
Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Pride delights in its clever schemes and reduces character to craft.” — Jo-Ann Triner EdD Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues. — John Churton Collins Copy Share Image
Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
“But pride carries its banner to the last; and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another, never admitting that… — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
Pride is a sweetmeat, to be savoured in small pieces; it makes for a poor feast. — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
“Pride measures prosperity not by her own advantages but by the disadvantages of others. She would not even wish to be a goddess unless… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be… — John Galt Copy Share Image
Men live best upon a little; Nature has given to all the privilege of being happy, if they but knew how to use their… — Claudius Claudianus Copy Share Image
Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high position. — Claudius Claudianus Copy Share Image
They are raised on high that they may be dashed to pieces with a greater fall. — Claudius Claudianus Copy Share Image
The afflictions to which we are accustomed, do not disturb us. — Claudius Claudianus Copy Share Image
The people become more observant of justice, and do not refuse to submit to the laws when they see them obeyed by their enactor. — Claudius Claudianus Copy Share Image
Lust, forgetful of future suffering, hurries us along the forbidden path. — Claudius Claudianus Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
