“Your pride for your country should not come after your country becomes great; your country becomes great because of your pride in it.”
“Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.”
“Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.”
“You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he developed one important quality: he recognized the smallness and narrowness of his thoughts and actions. Under the pressure of some task that meant a great deal to him, he learned to see how his smallness, his pettiness endangered his happiness. In other words, a great man knows when and in what way he is a little man. A little man does not know he is little and is afraid to know. He hides his pettiness and narrowness behind illusions of strength and greatness, someone else s strength and greatness. He s proud of his great generals but not of himself. He admires an idea he has not had, not one he has had. The less he understands something, the more firmly he believes in it. And the better he understands an idea, the less he believes in it.”
“I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.”
“Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.”
“(( إن الذي ملأ اللغات محاسنا... جعل الجمال وسره في الضاد ))”
“Greed, envy, sloth, pride and gluttony: these are not vices anymore. No, these are marketing tools. Lust is our way of life. Envy is just a nudge towards another sale. Even in our relationships we consume each other, each of us looking for what we can get out of the other. Our appetites are often satisfied at the expense of those around us. In a dog-eat-dog world we lose part of our humanity.”
“We ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we re not savages. We re English, and the English are best at everything.”
“Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.”
“And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.”
“In a way, I was incrediibly proud of her (not that I had any intention of letting it show while I was beating the crap out of her).”
“My father told me once that the most important thing every man should know is what he would die for.”
“A session of boasting won t attract any real friends. It will set you up on a pedestal, however, making you a clearer target.”
“Sometimes unspoken apologies are masked by diligent efforts.”
“أنا مش تبع مخلوق يا سيدنا البيه أنا حُر في إللي يقول ضميري عليه وإن كنت تُحكم جوا ملكوتك الشارع الواسع فاتح لي إيديه”
“All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don t you take it away from yourself.”