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Great stars have great pride. Sunset Boulevard: A Hollywood Story 1950 starring Gloria Swanson & Erich von Stronheim & William Holden & Nancy Olson & Fred Clark & Lloyd Gough & Jack Webb & Franklyn Farnum et al, director Billy Wilder, Norma
Pride went before, ambition follows him. William Shakespeare, The First Part of the Contention II Henry VI I i 178, Salisbury
Small things make base men proud. ibid. IV i 104, Suffolk
But sure he’s proud; and yet his pride becomes him. William Shakespeare, As You Like It III v 115, Pheobe to Silvius
He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle. William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida II iii @156
I am myself indifferent honest. But yet I could accuse me of such things, that it were better my mother had not borne me. I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious; with more offences at by beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves all; believe none of us. Go thy ways to a nunnery. William Shakespeare, Hamlet III i 123-140, Hamlet to Ophelia
You my man? ... Fuck pride. Pride only hurts; it never helps. You fight through that shit. Pulp Fiction 1994 ***** starring Uma Thurman & John Travolta & Samuel L Jackson & Harvey Keitel & Tim Roth & Amanda Plummer & Maria de Medeiros & Ving Rhames & Eric Stoltz & Rosanna Arquette & Bruce Willis & Christopher Walken et al, director Quentin Tarantino, Marsellus
Pride goes before a fall. Late 14th century proverb
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us. Jane Austen
I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
The Lord will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow. Proverbs 15:25
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. Proverbs 16:18
There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. ‘Good pride’ represents our dignity and self-respect. ‘Bad pride’ is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance. John C Maxwell
If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride. G K Chesterton
In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. John Ruskin
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride. Friedrich Nietzsche
I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make. Steven Patrick Morrissey
All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride. Sophocles, Antigone
Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts – not to hurt others. George Eliot, Middlemarch
Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold. Thomas Jefferson
The devil ... the prowde spirite ... cannot endure to be mocked. Thomas More
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. Emily Brontë
We are rarely proud when we are alone. Voltaire
Have some pride. Because life is short. Pride 2014 starring Bill Nighy & Imelda Staunton & Dominic West & Paddy Considine & Andrew Scott & George MacKay & Joseph Gilgun & Ben Schnetzer & Menna Trussler et al, director Matthew Warchus, friend to friend
Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues – faith and hope. Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby