Christopher Morley Quotes

Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.

Pride... limits or stops progression. The proud are not easily taught. They won't change their minds to accept truths, because to do so implies they have been wrong.

Small minds are captivated by trifles.

What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.

A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was.

I know that I'm a bit of a snob now, because 'The Lover' put me up here and I just don't want to accept anything less than that. I don't see why I should.

an intellectual arrogance and unconscious assumption of superiority.

I was a big-headed little guy.

Be not proud of race, face, place, or grace.

Lustre of man walking proud beneath the sky diminishes to nothing and goes unregarded.

A proud heart and a lofty mountain are never fruitful.

There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.

What can one possibly introduce into a mind that is already full, and full of itself?

Small things make base men proud.

If there's anything worse than knowing too little, it's knowing too much. Education will broaden a narrow mind, but there's no known cure for a big head. The best you can hope is that it will swell up and bust.

The smaller the mind, the greater the ego.

Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud; but, God He knows, thy share thereof is small.

Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of.

There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.

Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.

The proud are ever most provoked by pride.

Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.

Indifference and pride look very much alike, and he probably thought I was proud.

The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets.

Foppery is never cured; it is the bad stamina of the mind, which, like those of the body, are never rectified; once a coxcomb always a coxcomb.