Exotic Quote by Hope Mirrlees

Pride is like the beautiful acacia, that lifts its head proudly above its neighbor plants-forgetting that it too, like them, has its roots in…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Earthly pride is like the passing flower, that springs to fall, and blossoms but to die.

— Henry Kirke White

Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness-the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away.

— Arthur Helps

Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

— Samuel Johnson

Pride is essentially competitive in nature. We pit our will against God's.

— Ezra Taft Benson

For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.

— Anonymous

Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Pride is a sweetmeat, to be savoured in small pieces; it makes for a poor feast.

— Laurie R. King

Pride has a greater share than goodness in the reproofs we give other people for their faults; and we chide them not so much…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Pride erects a little kingdom of its own, and acts as sovereign in it.

— William Hazlitt

Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn, can…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson