Pride Quote by Richard Wright

“Guilt was a thief. It would steal your mind, mess with your priorities and would eventually steer you from your original plan. I couldn’t…

— L.J. Shen

“And if there was little honor in thieving from a thief, he imagined he would feel little shame in it, either.”

— Helene Wecker

“It could have been a thief or a murderer. I considered crying out. A thief would run away, but a murderer would murder me.…

— Yahtzee Croshaw

“I wasn't much of a petty thief. I wanted the whole world or nothing.”

— Charles Bukowski

“I liked to pretend I was noble, to tell myself I wouldn’t draw someone into the fire, but threatened with the safety of the…

— Lindsey Fairleigh

“I can respect a murderer, and a thief, but I have no respect for someone who lies straight to my face.”

— J.M. Darhower

“It was clear that everything considered important and good was insignificant and repulsive, and that all this glamour and luxury hid the old well-known…

— Leo Tolstoy

“But I had learned deceptions could be uttered with a straight face, a warm smile might conceal malice, and that the most dangerous lies…

— Sue Lynn Tan

“I did not hesitate to tell them that I not only had the authority of facts, but that it was my conviction that our…

— F. Sionil José

“I wonder, not for the first time, if shame and pride are merely two sides of the same coin.”

— Christina Baker Kline

“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

“felt the depth of my deception. What had happened to my self-respect? My integrity?”

— Diane Chamberlain