"The Devil's Thoughts", st. 6 (1799)
Robert Southey (1774–1843) British poet
St. 8. Compare: "And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin / Is pride that apes humility", Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Devil's Thoughts. <br class="br"> The Devil's Walk http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/shelley/devil/devil.rs1860.html (1799)
“Pride is the master sin of the devil.”
Edwin Hubbell Chapin (1814–1880) American priest
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, P. 484.
“It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.”
Humilitas homines sanctis angelis similes facit, et superbia ex angelis demones facit.
Aurelius Augustinus (354–430) early Christian theologian and philosopher
As quoted in Manipulus Florum (c. 1306), edited by Thomas Hibernicus, Superbia i cum uariis; also in Best Thoughts Of Best Thinkers: Amplified, Classified, Exemplified and Arranged as a Key to unlock the Literature of All Ages (1904) edited by Hialmer Day Gould and Edward Louis Hessenmueller
Disputed
“Don't be a fool for the Devil, darling.”
Anne Rice book Interview with the Vampire
Source: Interview with the Vampire
“If pride is a sin… moral pride is the greatest sin.”
John Irving book The Cider House Rules
Source: The Cider House Rules
“Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin.”
Ian Fleming book The Spy Who Loved Me
Source: The Spy Who Loved Me
“2994. It is not a sign of Humility to declaim against Pride.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1749) : Declaiming against pride, is not always a Sign of Humility.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Martin Luther book Table Talk
67. Compare "Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, part III, section 4, member 1, subsection 1
Table Talk (1569)
“False humility is more insulting than open pride!”
Brandon Mull (1974) American fiction writer
Source: Rise of the Evening Star
