Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bernard de Mandeville

This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity.

Bernard de Mandeville

It is visible then that it was not any Heathen Religion or other Idolatrous Superstition, that first put Man upon crossing his Appetites and subduing his dearest Inclinations, but the skilful Management of wary Politicians; and the nearer we search into human Nature, the more we shall be convinced, that the Moral Virtues are the Political Offspring which Flattery begot upon Pride.

Bernard de Mandeville

Pride and vanity have built more hospitals than all the virtues together,

Cat Deeley

I have a Damien Hirst spot painting which I love. It has pride of place over my dining-room table.

Cass Sunstein

There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft

Carolyn Wells

To take pride in a library kills it. Then, its motive power shifts over to the critical if admiring visitor, and apologies are necessary and acceptable and the fat is in the fire.

Chance The Rapper

I'm light skinned, and I used to lean on that because that's something a lot of black people pride themselves on, and it's weird.

Charles Manson

You may restrain my body and you may tear my guts out, do anything you wish, but I am still me and you can't take that. You can kill the ego, you can kill the pride, you can kill the want, the desire of a human being. You can lock him in a cell and you can knock his teeth out and smash his brain, but you cannot kill the soul. You never could kill the soul. It's always there, the beginning and the end. You cannot stop it, it's bigger than me. I'm just looking into it and it frightens me sometimes.

Bob Schaffer

The Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated.

Bob Riley

For too long, we have focused on our differences - in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs - rather than cherishing the unity and pride that binds us together.

Beth Moore

A person full of the Holy Spirit cannot be full of self. Pride never accompanies power in the fully yielded life.

Bernard Pivot

There is a pride in speaking this language.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Pride causes us to use our gifts as though they came from ourselves, not benefits received from God, and to usurp our benefactor's glory.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Pride only, the chief of all iniquities, can make us treat gifts as if they were rightful attributes of our nature, and, while receiving benefits, rob our Benefactor of His due glory.

Bill Watterson

You know, there are times when it's a source of personal pride to not be human.

Benjamin Whichcote

Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.

Anthony Trollope

It is the highest and most legitimate pride of an Englishman to have the letters M.P. written after his name. No selection from the alphabet, no doctorship, no fellowship, be it of ever so learned or royal a society, no knightship,--not though it be of the Garter,--confers so fair an honour.

Demi Lovato

I prefer to cry alone, Pride? No. I just want to avoid trial of people who don't know the reason of my tears.

Craig Ferguson

I found out it is just as hard to make a movie that you are not proud of as it is to make one you love.

Claire Foy

I've seen 'Pride and Prejudice' about 4,000 times. I'm not joking: I know every single line.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.

Arthur Helps

Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness-the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away.

Charlemagne

Herbs are the friend of the physician and the pride of cooks.

Charlemagne

The difference between Pride Jaguar and the Drago-Kazov? A Jaguar will stab you in the back to gain an advantage. a Dragan will stab you just to see if his knife is sharp.

Blaise Pascal

Do they think that they have given us great pleasure by telling us that they hold our soul to be no more than wind or smoke, and saying it moreover in tones of pride and satisfaction? Is this then something to be said gaily? Is it not on the contrary something to be said sadly, as being the saddest thing in the world?

Blaise Pascal

Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of.

Blaise Pascal

Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

Billie Joe Armstrong

We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we're not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world

Charles Spurgeon

No matter how dear you are to God, if pride is harboured in your spirit, He will whip it out of you. They that go up in their own estimation must come down again by His discipline

Charles R. Swindoll

Pride leaves no room for grace.

Democritus

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.

William Shakespeare

It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.

William Shakespeare

Whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.