Quotes of: Great-pride Keyword

When you live in Paris, and fashion is such a point of pride for the French, it's always around and you're very much exposed to it from an early age. It was always something I knew about and really liked.

Joseph Altuzarra

I shot my first lion at the age of 14 when a pride threatened my father's livestock while he was away on holiday.

Wilbur Smith

Your emotions are exposed when you play golf: humility, pride, anger, it all comes out with each swing. You lay it all on the line.

Bryant Gumbel

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Petrarch

Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays in the same handful of hotels, eats at the same no-star restaurants, and has almost the same opinions. I adore the art world, but this is copycat behavior in a sphere that prides itsel...

Jerry Saltz

Buried beneath disappointment and fear, anger and pride, I just might find it in my heart to forgive.

Heart of the Matter

Beware pride; it would have us seek revenge from those most deserving of our pity.

Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest

Modesty isn’t always a virtue; it can be a hindrance; a careful measure of personal pride builds confidence and ensures success.

Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest

With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are.

Killosophy

They don't know the meaning of danger or fear or pain. It's only their pride that can be truly hurt.

Red Queen

When a man's pride is injured, death is a small price to repay the insult.

Shogun Volume 1

I pride myself in being a deep thinker, and I want you to be one too.

The Secrets of Business

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

Middlemarch

That is how war corrupts us. It plays on our pride in our own free will.

The Magus

Pride costs nothing, yet it is especially precious when it can be “purchased” at someone else’s expense.

A Mixture of Madness

Take pride away from a man and you might as well run a knife through his heart.

Mercy

Not only is history useless, but the historian should take pride in its uselessness.

On the Nature of History : Essays about History and Dissidence

Love the pride of the conquered nations, and leave them to honour their father and their mother.

Out of Africa

Fear cannot capture us, criticism cannot harm us, and pride cannot make us fall.

The Love of Devotion

For Pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common senesce.

Mere Christianity

Prate not to me of suicide, Faint heart in battle, not for pride I say Endure, but that such end denied Makes welcomer yet the death that's to be died.

Selected Poems