If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin.
The tyrant is a child of pride.
The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.
Pride is the ground in which all the other sins grow, and the parent from which all the other sins come.
Pride is the parent of destruction; pride eats the mind and the heart and the soul alive.
It is extreme arrogance for one to think he...and it's usually he, is the only one who can govern his country and nobody else can do it.
Pride is the king of vices...it is the first of the pallbearers of the soul...other vices destroy only their opposite virtues, as wantonness destroys chastity; greed destroys temperance; anger destroys gentleness; but pride destroys all virtues.
Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.
If there is one thing I will not abide it is the folly of a willful pride.
Thy pride is but the prologue of thy shame; where vain-glory commands, there folly counsels; where pride rides, there shame lackeys.
Pride erects a little kingdom of its own, and acts as sovereign in it.
The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.
Pride is innate in beauty, and haughtiness is the companion of the fair.
Arrogance rides triumphantly through the gates, barely glancing at the old woman about to cut the rope and spring shut the trap.
Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion...Pride is ugly; it says if you succeed I am a failure...Pride is basically competitive in nature. When competition ends, pride ends.
There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight.
The demon of pride was born with us; and it will not die one hour before us.
We are so conceited and so unproud.
If arrogance were shoes, he'd never go barefoot.
This rascal ego must be obliterated.
Arrogance is an exaggeration of the truth.
Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.
Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
