Pride Quote by Robert Greene

“avoid contempt, both of others and of yourself: what seems bad to you in yourself is purified by the very fact that you have…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“for all contempt turns upon the contemptuous, as it must.”

— Stephen R. Donaldson

“They dislike, therefore, to hear of 'contempt' of themselves. So I will appeal to their pride.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“If I have one pride in my calling, it is that I have never judged a patron wrongly - and I have never failed…

— Jacqueline Carey

“It still stops my having any feeling of pride when people think well of what I do, for I say to myself: Since any…

— John Beevers

There are persons whom in my heart I despise, others I abhor. Yet I am not obliged to inform the one of my contempt,…

— John Adams

“Some of you need a lesson in humility. While your arrogance may give you a sense of power, it may serve you better to…

— J 'son M. Lee

“I have a proud character that cannot bear contempt.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Contemptuous people are sure to be contemptible.

— Nicolas Chamfort

“Pride is no respecter of persons. The serious thinkers may be humble, and the careless mystics may be arrogant.”

— John Piper

“...Abhorring all whom I dislike, Adoring who my fancy strike; In forming judgements never long, And for the most part judging wrong...”

— Matthew Lewis

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

— Alice Miller