Passion Quote by Edith Wharton Download Open image ““...how much did pride count in the ebullition of passions in his breast?”” — Edith Wharton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Passion Pride
“In reality, there is perhaps not one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as our pride.” — Jeff Wheeler Copy Share Image
“There is perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“There had been an attempt to humiliate him. It had not succeeded. He had paid, but pain, like pleasure, has no duration. Pride was… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
“In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural Passions so hard to subdue as Pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural Passions so hard to subdue as Pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Pride was an illusion, an artifice that could be set aside when circumstances warranted.” — Alec Hutson Copy Share Image
“it isn’t passions that make us weak, but rather uncontrollable passions.” — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
“My pride had risen up and whopped me in the face. I don't lose my temper a lot, but when I do, I make… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
“Remember, all passions start from love or hate. But beware - you never know whether they will end with delight or sorrow.” — Jessica Shirvington Copy Share Image
“He looked both proud and guilty of something. As if happiness was a reward and he wasn't sure he'd done enough to deserve it.” — Rupert Thomson Copy Share Image
“Pride had a very similar character with Lust. He was difficult to satisfy, but rather than desiring tasty foods, Pride desired valuable possessions. Man… — Stephen and Tiffany Domena Copy Share Image
“Suddenly the air was full of that deep clangor of bells which periodically covers Rome with a roof of silver.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Untrained human nature was not frank and innocent; it was full of the twists and defences of an instinctive guile. And he felt himself… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“High Pasture Come up--come up: in the dim vale below The autumn mist muffles the fading trees, But on this keen hill-pasture, though the… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Two ways to be a light for all, is to be a flaming candle or the mirror that reflects it” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“... no treasure-house of Atreus was ever as rich as a well-stored memory.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“...the endless labour of rolling human stupidity up the steep hill of understanding.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend! — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Christianity was never meant to be defined by its disciplines, but by its passions. — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
“What's the best thing about being in college? Good teachers. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I have learned that you can go anywhere you want to go and do anything you want to do and buy all the things… — C JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Tonight I feel like a prisoner on fire, waiting desperately... denied, sentenced forever more. Only your love can set me free. — Michael Bolton Copy Share Image
Surely to root politics out of art is a highly necessary undertaking: for the freedom of art, like that of science, depends entirely upon… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Without passion and satisfaction, there is nothing to make happiness last.” — ANIKOR Daniel Copy Share Image
Football is my passion, and who knows where I will play in the future - you cannot foresee that. — Edinson Cavani Copy Share Image
Well, He had known what love was-a sharp pang, a fierce experience, in the midst of whose flames he was struggling! but, through that… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
