Birth Quote by Stendhal Download Open image “Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.” — Stendhal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Birth Flatterer Flattery Men Money Pride Rich Wounded Wounded pride Young Young man
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 in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse. — Abu Bakr Copy Share Image
Young men, I beseech you earnestly, beware of pride. Two things are said to be very rare sights in the world- one is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pride is a wound and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open that wound again and again.… — Michael Ayrton Copy Share Image
“Pride thinks its own happiness shines the brighter, by comparing it with the misfortunes of other persons; that by displaying its own wealth they… — Sir Thomas More Copy Share Image
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others. — Thomas More Copy Share Image
“The cheapest sort of pride is national pride; for if a man is proud of his own nation, it argues that he has no… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Pride is not the heritage of man; humility should dwell with frailty, and atone for ignorance, error, and imperfection. — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness and love… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“The footman burst in, announcing, 'Monsieur le Duc de ---.' 'Hold your tongue, you fool,' said the Duke as he entered the room. He… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“If you think of paying court to those in power, your eternal ruin is assured.” — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“Conception is the beginning of human life. From the time that an ovum is fertilized a new life begins that is neither that of… — Declaration on Procured Abortion Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith 1974 Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The greatest mystery in life is not life itself, but death. Death is the culmination of life, the ultimate blossoming of life. In death… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare,… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It was no accident, no coincidence, that the seasons came round and round year after year. It was the Lord speaking to us all… — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of beauty; there is a beauty which God gives at birth, and which withers as a flower. And there is… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
I gave birth to most of them MC's... So when it comes around to the month of May, Send me your royalty check for… — Roxanne Shante Copy Share Image
