Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Blake

The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.

William Blake

The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

Samuel Richardson

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.

Samuel Richardson

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

Salma Hayek

I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.

Salman Rushdie

I determined to make my peace with Islam, even at the cost of my pride. Those who were surprised and displeased by what I did perhaps failed to see that ... I wanted to make peace between the warring halves of the world, which were also the warring halves of my soul.

Salman Rushdie

We who have grown up on a diet of honour and shame can still grasp what must seem unthinkable to people living in the aftermath of the death of God and of tragedy: that men will sacrifice their dearest love on the implacable altars of their pride.

Salman Rushdie

As I look back, I feel a touch of pride at my younger self's dedication to literature, which gave him the strength of mind to resist the blandishments of the enemies of promise. The sirens of ad-land sang sweetly and seductively, but I thought of Odysseus lashing himself to the mast of his ship, and somehow stayed on course.

Wesley Snipes

My sign is Leo. A Leo has to walk with pride. When he takes a step, he has to put his foot down. You walk into a room and you want people to know your presence, without you doing anything.

W. S. Gilbert

My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

W. H. Auden

The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

William Cowper

The proud are ever most provoked by pride.

William Cowper

God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money, Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.

William Cowper

A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.

Tony Wilson

Most of all, I love Manchester. The crumbling warehouses, the railway arches, the cheap abundant drugs. That's what did it in the end. Not the money, not the music, not even the guns. That is my heroic flaw: my excess of civic pride.

William Gurnall

Pride of gifts robs us of God's blessing in the use of them.

William Golding

We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.

William Barnes

We souls on foot, with foot-folk meet: For we that cannot hope to ride For ease or pride, have fellowship.

Walter Lang

This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.

Walter Kaufmann

The Greeks had considered hope the final evil in Pandora's box. They also gave us an image of perfect nobility: a human being lovingly doing her duty to another human being despite all threats, and going to her death with pride and courage, not deterred by any hope - Antigone.

Walter Lippmann

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

Voltaire

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Voltaire

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

William C. Bryant

Genius, with all its pride in its own strength, is but a dependent quality, and cannot put forth its whole powers nor claim all its honors without an amount of aid from the talents and labors of others which it is difficult to calculate.

Walter Savage Landor

There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it.

Winston Churchill

The flags of the Confederate States of America were very important and a matter of great pride to those citizens living in the Confederacy. They are also a matter of great pride for their descendants as part of their heritage and history.

William Wycherley

Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.

William Wordsworth

Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.

William Wordsworth

I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride; Of him who walked in glory and in joy, Following his plough, along the mountain-side. By our own spirits we are deified; We Poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.

William Shenstone

Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places.

William Saroyan

There is little pride in writers. They know they are human and shall some day die and be forgotten. Knowing all this a writer is gentle and kindly where another man is severe and unkind.

William J. Clinton

Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent.

Will Davis

Pride and entitlement always go with unforgiveness. The longer you hold someone's offense over them, the more likely you are to start feeling arrogant and entitled to your posture toward him.