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Jane Austen2 quotes
I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine. — Jane Austen · 1813Vanity 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 · 1813Alexander Pope1 quote
Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes,
Men would be angels, angels would be gods. — Alexander Pope · 1733Baruch Spinoza1 quote
Pride is therefore pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself. — Baruch Spinoza · 1677Charles Dickens1 quote
Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues—faith and hope. — Charles Dickens · 1839Dolores Ibarruri1 quote
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. — Dolores Ibarruri · 1936George Eliot1 quote
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 · 1872Jesus1 quote
But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first. — Jesus · 60Marsellus Wallace1 quote
Fuck pride. Pride only hurts, it never helps. — Marsellus Wallace · 1994Samuel Taylor Coleridge1 quote
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin
Is pride that apes humility. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1799