Source: In Defence Of Politics (Second Edition) – 1981, Chapter 7, In Praise Of Politics, p. 159.
“Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.”
“The scene was more beautiful far to the eye
Than if day in its pride had arrayed it.”
The Beacon, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
(from vol 2, letter 42: 9 Oct 1779, to Mr M___ ) [describing a friend]
“Pride comes before a fall- although in [Henry Kissinger's] case it's more conceit than pride.”
As quoted in Asadollah Alam (1991), The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77, page 391
Attributed
Source: Why Men Marry Bitches: A Woman's Guide to Winning Her Man's Heart
“False humility is more insulting than open pride!”
Source: Rise of the Evening Star
“Benevolence is more a vice of pride than a true virtue of the soul.”
First Dialogue, Delmonce
Philosophy in the Bedroom (1795)
From Terrorism & Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice and Peace to Rid the World of Evil (Palgrave, 2003) http://www.jimbovard.com/Epigrams%20page%20Terrorism%20&%20Tyranny.htm
