#pride

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Who knows himself a braggart, let him fear this, for it will come to pass that every braggart shall be found an ass.


William Shakespeare


#ass #braggart #bragging #humility #humor

Pride and resentment are not indigenous to the human heart; and perhaps it is due to the gardener's innate love of the exotic that we take such pains to make them thrive".


Hope Mirrlees


#resentment #love

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


#dishonesty #intellect #pride #stupidity #tolstoy

A session of boasting won't attract any real friends.  It will set you up on a pedestal, however, making you a clearer target.


Richelle E. Goodrich


#bragging #conceit #gossip #haughty #pride

Pride is the mother of arrogance.


Toba Beta


#pride #arrogance

The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong He plummets to the dust of hope.


Sophocles


#evil #pride #recklessness #ruin #tyranny

One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.


Friedrich Nietzsche


#pride #vanity #vanity

It is the philosophers, theologians, and evangelists who are said to be filled with pride and bigotry due to the strong convictions that they represent. On the contrary, teachings can be either taken or dismissed; whereas voting is the only thing the average person can do to force everyone to live how they would prefer. A simple vote is among the largest yet most acceptable forms of bigotry, and that is because people play the card only when they feel that in doing so it conveniences themselves.


Criss Jami


#bigotry #convenience #convictions #evangelists #hypocrisy

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.


Elizabeth Goudge


#empathy #pride #selfishness #empathy

Smugness is the Great Catholic Sin.


Flannery O'Connor


#pride #sin #smugness #catholicism