Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.

Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.

They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud.

They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud.

O world, how apt the poor are to be proud.

O world, how apt the poor are to be proud.

I do not hate a proud man, as I do hate the engendering of toads.

I do not hate a proud man, as I do hate the engendering of toads.

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

Pride is the mask of one's own faults.

Pride is the mask of one's own faults.

Pride in their port, defiance in their eye,
I see the lords of humankind pass by.

Pride in their port, defiance in their eye,
I see the lords of humankind pass by.

Is this that haughty, gallant, gay Lothario?

Is this that haughty, gallant, gay Lothario?

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a
fall.

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a
fall.