Delicacy Quote by Walter Savage Landor

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

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places.

— William Shenstone

A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing.

— Henry Ford

People are often most proud of precisely those things of which they should most be ashamed.

— Allen W. Wood

If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without…

— Laurence Sterne

All men are equally proud. The only difference is that not all take the same methods of showing it.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up dignity. In gluttony there must be eating, in drunkenness…

— John Selden

Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.

— John C. Maxwell

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

— Baruch Spinoza

Pride is the mask we make of our faults

— Hebrew Proverb

Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper…

— Henry Ward Beecher