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“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, Pride and Prejudice
“In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.” Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
“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.” C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“First, there is the burden of pride. The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed.” A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God
“Pride, therefore, is pleasure springing from a man thinking too highly of himself.” Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
“Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.” Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
“Av'rice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all On fire.” Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy
“No wonder that God in His special grace subjects the ministers of the Gospel to all kinds of afflictions, otherwise they could not cope with this ugly beast called vainglory.” Martin Luther, Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians
“Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“I am not proud, but I am happy, and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“None are more readily taken with flattery than the proud, who wish to be first, but are not.” Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
“But when I tell him he hates flatterers, He says he does, being then most flattered.” William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
“Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride—where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“What a chimera then is man! What a novelty! What a monster, what a chaos, what a contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, imbecile worm of the earth; depositary of truth, a sink of uncertainty and error; the pride and refuse of the...” Blaise Pascal, Pensées
“Doubtless this persistence was the best course for his own dignity: but pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.” George Eliot, Middlemarch
“I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in.” William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.” C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition has gone, pride has gone.” C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“I am only a peasant by position, not by nature!” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is...” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“And if it's proud to have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts . . . she is proud.” Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
“Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud; but, God he knows, thy share thereof is small.” William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3
“Man . . . how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!” Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
“The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.” C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardour of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary's force of reason, than I am pleased with the victory I obtain over him through his weakness.” Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
“Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.” George Eliot, Middlemarch
“Believe it or not, there are places in the world where music is important. There are places in the world where all the arts are a matter of national pride.” Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book
“To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.” Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“You must come to violent conflicts and make a noise in order to produce your sparks. But their disconnected flashes merely assist your pride, and not your clear vision.” Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
“Where will you find the certainty that it was not after all a hidden pride which governed your resolution?” Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling
“Still, the proudest spirit can be broken, with love.” Neil Gaiman, Coraline
“She had been proud of his decision to serve his country, her heart bursting with love and admiration the first time she saw him outfitted in his dress blues.” Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One
“I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all” Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
“In his fiery eyes of scorn and triumph, you then saw Ahab in all his fatal pride.” Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
“Tom Sawyer the Pirate looked around upon the envying juveniles about him and confessed in his heart that this was the proudest moment of his life.” Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
“I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted it was worth knowing.” Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary
“People in their right minds never take pride in their talents” Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
“Rebecca! she who could prefer death to dishonour, must have a proud and a powerful soul.” Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
“I am consequently proud—proud as Lucifer.” Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit
“The pride of aiming at more knowledge, and pretending to more Perfection, the cause of Man's error and misery.” Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man

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