“Warwickshire is the Monarch of all Shires”
“Don’t let your pride write a check your heart can’t pay for.”
“It s hard to know that you re flying too high until the feathers start dropping.”
“Did she love me? I d never know because I d never ask. That was the thing about pride, it shortsighted our hearts.”
“The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.”
“He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.”
“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.”
“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”
“A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.”
“Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.”
“I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.”
“I m so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that.”
“It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.”
“Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune. ”
“I was like, Am I gay? Am I straight? And I realized...I m just slutty. Where s my parade?”
“Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.”
“You wear your honor like a suit of armor... You think it keeps you safe, but all it does is weigh you down and make it hard for you to move.”