Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Pride is a flower that grows in the devil's garden. Howell.

Pride is lofty, calm, immovable; vanity is uncertain, capricious, and unjust. Chamfort.

Pride is still aiming at the blest abodes; / 35 Men would be angels, angels would be gods; / Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, / Aspiring to be angels, men rebel. Pope.

Pride is the source of a thousand virtues; vanity is that of nearly all vices and all perversities. Chamfort.

Pride must suffer pain. Pr.

Pride never leaves its master till he gets a fa'. Sc. Pr.

Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness. Lowell.

Pride, the never-failing vice of fools. Pope. 40

Pride will have a fall; for pride goeth before, and shame cometh after. Pr.

Pride with pride will not abide. Pr.