Contempt Quote by Henry Bolingbroke Download Open image “Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.” — Henry Bolingbroke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contempt Esteem Pride Respect Reverence
Pride, like humility, is destroyed by one's insistence that he possesses it. — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Pride is the parent of destruction; pride eats the mind and the heart and the soul alive. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Pride consists in an unduly exalted opinion of one's self. It is, therefore, impatient of a rival, hates a superior, and cannot endure a… — Charles Haddon Spurgeon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Pride is yet another form of ego. It keeps us in the past and closes our eyes on the now. It stops us from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Dr. Manton taught my youth to yawn, and prepared me to be a High-Churchman, that I might never hear him read nor read him more. — Henry Bolingbroke Copy Share
The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles,… — Henry Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
You have deceived our trust, and made us doff our easy robes of peace, to crush our old limbs in ungentle steel. — Henry Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue. — Henry Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Our security depends on having good relationships with our allies. Donald Trump mainly shows contempt for them. — Paul Wolfowitz Copy Share Image
There is no real elevation of mind in a contempt of little things; it is, on the contrary, from too narrow views that we… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but a just… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Somebody once told me that if you laugh at a George Bush joke, or you send an email cartoon to your friends that makes… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
Unless a man gives himself entirely to the Cross, in a spirit of humility and self-abasement; unless he casts himself down to be trampled underfoot by all and despised, accepting injustice, contempt and mockery; unless he undergoes all these things with joy for the sake of the Lord, not claiming any kind of human reward whatsoever - glory or honor… — Mark the Evangelist Copy Share
Much of the same sort of degraded and filthy talk can still be heard among the orc-minded; dreary and repetitive with hatred and contempt,… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up souvenirs have… — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
Every person of any rank in the left, from voter on up to cabinet member to elected official in the Democrat Party, has contempt.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image