The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing read more

The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts read more

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.

Pride (of all others the most dang'rous fault)
Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.

Pride (of all others the most dang'rous fault)
Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.

He is so plaguy proud that the death-tokens of it
Cry 'No recovery.'

He is so plaguy proud that the death-tokens of it
Cry 'No recovery.'

Is this that haughty, gallant, gay Lothario?

Is this that haughty, gallant, gay Lothario?

To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak.

To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.