The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint.—Lavater.
Pride.—Without the sovereign influence of God's extraordinary and immediate grace, men do very rarely put off all the trappings of their pride, till they who are about them put on their winding-sheet.—Clarendon.
Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.—Lowell.
Of all the causes that conspire to blind
Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind,
What the weak head with strongest bias rules,
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
—Pope.
It is hardly possible to overvalue ourselves but by undervaluing our neighbors.—Clarendon.
The sin of pride is the sin of sins; in which all subsequent sins are included, as in their germ; they are but the unfolding of this one.—Archbishop Trench.
Some people are proud of their humility.—Beecher.
Pride requires very costly food—its keeper's happiness.—Colton.
Pride, of all others the most dangerous fault,
Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.
—Roscommon.