Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Gay

Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims distinction most.

Linda Sue Park

Why was it that pride and foolishness were so often close companions?

Lil Wayne

Four tears in my face and you ain't never heard me cry/ I'm richer than all y'all, I got a bank full of pride

Leo Tolstoy

In order to obtain and hold power a man must love it. Thus the effort to get it is not likely to be coupled with goodness, but with the opposite qualities of pride, craft and cruelty.

Leo Tolstoy

And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.

Leo Tolstoy

In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness but with qualities that are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning and cruelty.

Lee Trevino

I got no pride on the hole. It's a par-5 and I play it that way. A four is a birdie.

Larry Kramer

Gay life in 1970 was very bleak, compartmentalized. You didn't take it to work. You had to really lead a double life. There were bars, but you sort of snuck in and snuck out. Activism and gay pride simply didn't exist. I don't even think the word 'gay' was in existence.

Larry Kramer

I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and pride to benefit from what is rightfully ours. Why isn't there an enormous building in Washington called the 'National Association of Lesbian and Gay Concerns' to lobby for us?

Lew Wallace

Pride is never so loud as when in chains.

Leon Uris

Pride is a fool's fortress

Karen Horney

If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride

John Dryden

Pride - Lord of human kind

Joanna Baillie

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

Joanna Baillie

Pride is a fault that great men blush not to own: it is the ennobled offspring of self-love; though, it must be confessed, grave and pompous vanity, Iike a fat plebeian in a rove of office, does very often assume its name.

George MacDonald

What honest boy would pride himself on not picking pockets ? A thief who was trying to reform would. To be conceited of doing one's duty is then a sign of how little one does it, and how little one sees what a contemptible thing it is not to do it. Could any but a low creature be conceited of not being contemptible? Until our duty becomes to us common as breathing, we are poor creatures.

Elizabeth Goudge

We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear," he said. "Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek.

Julie Andrews

Miracles, contrary to popular belief, do not just happen. A miracle is the achievement of the impossible, and it is only when we put aside out greed, anger, pride and prejudice so that our minds are open and ready to accept it, that a miracle can occur.

Judith McNaught

Jennifer Merrick had stored all her tears inside her, and her pride and courage would never permit her to break down and shed them.

Katherine Heigl

I pride myself on being kind.

Justin Long

I've always been proud of the fact that I can hold it together and I rarely break. It's a point of pride for me.

Landon Donovan

I used to focus more on scoring. Now I take a lot of pride and pleasure in helping someone else do well.

Louise Rennison

Mr. Darcy was in Pride and Prejudice and at first he was all snooty and huffy; then he fell in a lake and came out with his shirt all wet. And then we all loved him. In a swoony way.

Fred W. Friendly

The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap, and they know it.

Josh Billings

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

Josh Billings

Pride seems to be equally distributed; the man who owns the carriage and the man who drives it seem to have it just alike.

Karl Kraus

The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by.

Kanye West

The dinosaurs aren't remembered for much more than their bones. When humanity's gone, what do we give to this little planet that we're on, and what could we do collectively, removing the pride?

Julie Walters

I read "Pride and Prejudice" [by Jane Austen]. I was gobsmacked by it - it's so funny and so modern. Unbelievable. You don't expect funny to come through after 200 years - humor doesn't transcend decades, let alone centuries.

Paul Thomas Anderson

I don't get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing - that around the world everybody's after the same thing, just some minor piece of happiness each day.

Paul Coffey

Hockey s a funny game. You have to prove yourself every shift, every game. It's not up to anybody else. You have to take pride in yourself.

Haruki Murakami

Everybody has some one thing they do not want to lose," began the man. "You included. And we are professionals at finding out that very thing. Humans by necessity must have a midway point between their desires and their pride. Just as all objects must have a center of gravity. This is something we can pinpoint. Only when it is gone do people realize it even existed.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The diseased pride [of artistic individualists] was not even conscious of a public interest, and would have found all political terms utterly tasteless and insignificant. It was no longer a question of one man one vote, but of one man one universe.