Quotes of: Pride Keyword

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

To marry is to surrender everything--not only your body but your pride, your independence, even your life.

Pope Joan

Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.

Practical Magic

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Pride and Prejudice

You may only call me "Mrs. Darcy"... when you are completely, and perfectly, and incandescently happy.

Pride and Prejudice

Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

Pride and Prejudice

Where other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.

Pride and Prejudice

…she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.

Pride and Prejudice

Religion and nationalism? I defecate on the altar of religious conviction, and wipe my arse on the flag of national pride.

Pop-Splat

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

Pride and Prejudice

Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?" "For the liveliness of your mind, I did.

Pride and Prejudice

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents.

Pride and Prejudice

Miss Bingley's congratulations to her brother, on his approaching marriage, were all that was affectionate and insincere.

Pride and Prejudice