Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion. I repeat: Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion.

A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing.

Pride leaves no room for grace.

Conceit is thinking you're great; egotism is knowing it.

Ain't nothing too discreet about the disease of conceit.

Thy pride is but the prologue of thy shame; where vain-glory commands, there folly counsels; where pride rides, there shame lackeys.

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Hubris means deadly pride. Thinking you can do things better than anyone else.

Pride is about the ugliest trait somebody can have.

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

If you take a loud pride in anything, people will rightly shoot you down.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

We’ve been an arrogant country.

Pride is not the worst of sins. In fact, it's one of the most interesting ones.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

Pride goes before destruction.

Pride is at the bottom of a great many errors and corruptions, and even of many evil practices, which have a great show and appearance of humility.

Pride erects a little kingdom of its own, and acts as sovereign in it.

Conceit is a disease That the doctors got no cure They've done a lot of research on it But what it is, they're still not sure.

Pride never sleeps. The principle at least is always awake. An intemperate man is sometimes sober, but a proud man is never humble.

Yes, pride is a perpetual nagging temptation. Keep on knocking it on the head, but don't be too worried about it. As long as one knows one is proud, one is safe from the worst form of pride.

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all.

Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of.

Boasting is the outward form of the inner condition of pride.

Conceit spoils the finest genius.