Famous Pride Quotes

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

Jane Austen

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

William Penn

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Voltaire

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

John Ruskin

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

William Hazlitt

The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.

Gustave Flaubert

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Famous Pride Quotes

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