Pride quotes

View Quote "What is the Unpardonable Sin?" asked the lime-burner; and then he shrank farther from his companion, trembling lest his question should be answered. "It is a sin that grew within my own breast," replied Ethan Brand, standing erect with a pride that distinguishes all enthusiasts of his stamp. "A sin that grew nowhere else! The sin of an intellect that triumphed over the sense of brotherhood with man and reverence for God, and sacrificed everything to its own mighty claims!

View Quote 'Tis pride, rank pride, and haughtiness of soul:I think the Romans call it Stoicism.

View Quote Debate between Winter and Summer (mid to late 3rd millennium BCE).

View Quote Exodus Rabbah 23, Tales and Maxims from the Midrash by Rev. Samuel Rapaport, (1907), p. 101

View Quote Humilitas homines sanctis angelis similes facit, et superbia ex angelis demones facit.

View Quote L'orgueil est l'ennemi constant de l'amour.

View Quote Lords of Creation; attributed by Hoyt's to Emily Anne Shuldham; reported as a folk song of unknown authorship in Songs of Ireland and Other Lands (1847), volume 2, p. 253.

View Quote Zu strenge Ford'rung ist verborgner Stolz.

View Quote A. R. Orage, On Love, with Some Aphorisms and Other Essays (London: The Janus Press, 1957), "Aphorisms", p. 60.

View Quote Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism (1709), line 203.

View Quote Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism (1709), line 205.

View Quote Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism (1709), line 209.

View Quote Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (1733-34), Epistle I, line 123-124.

View Quote Alexander Pope, Memory of an Unfortunate Lady (1717), line 4.

View Quote Alphonsus Maria de Liguori The Conditions Requisite for the Due Performance of Prayer in: The complete works of Saint Alphonsus de Liguori: the ascetical works, Volume 2. Redemptorist Fathers, 1926. p. 435.