|
|
|
|
|
1
|
|
There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
(George Washington (1732-1799), U.S. general, president. speech, Sept. 17, 1796. Farewell Address, vol. 35, The Writings of George Washington, ed. John C. Fitzpatrick (1940).)
More quotations from:
George Washington
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2
|
|
It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.
(Georges Bernanos (1888-1948), French novelist, political writer. The Diary of a Country Priest, ch. 7 (1936).)
More quotations from:
Georges Bernanos
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3
|
|
What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what
Is a theatre? are they two and not one? can they exist separate?
Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion,
O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!
(William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, engraver. Jerusalem, plate 57, repr. In Complete Writings, ed. Geoffrey Keynes (1957).)
More quotations from:
William Blake
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
4
|
|
May! Be thou never graced with birds that sing,
Nor Flora's pride!
In thee all flowers and roses spring,
Mine only died.
(William Browne (1591-1643), British poet. Epitaph in Obitum M.S., X° Maij, 1614 (l. 1-4). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.)
More quotations from:
William Browne
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
5
|
|
Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although pride has a thousand ways of transforming itself it is never so well disguised and able to take people in as when masquerading as humility.
(Franηois, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680), French author, moralist. Sentences et Maximes Morales, no. 254 (1678).)
More quotations from:
Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Franηois
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
6
|
|
"... Knowledge he shall unwind
Through victories of the mind,
Till, clambering at the cradle-side,
He dreams himself his mother's pride,
All knowledge lost in trance
Of sweeter ignorance."
(William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet, playwright. "Shepherd and Goatherd.")
More quotations from:
William Butler Yeats
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
7
|
|
When in our music God is glorified,
and adoration leaves no room for pride,
it is as though the whole creation cried Alleluia!
(Frederick Pratt Green (b. 1903), Methodist minister and hymn-writer. Published in The Hymnal (1982). "When in our music God is glorified," Hope Publishing Company, Carol Stream, IL (1972).)
More quotations from:
Frederick Pratt Green
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
8
|
|
Singing I was at peace,
Above the clouds, outside the ring:
For sorrow finds a swift release in song
And pride its poise.
(Cecil Day Lewis (1904-1972), Irish poet. The Conflict (l. 13-16).
NoP. Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
More quotations from:
Cecil Day Lewis
|
|
|
|
Home
