Bob Dylan Quotes

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

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.

Pride is innate in beauty, and haughtiness is the companion of the fair.

Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.

Pride is a fault that great men blush not to own: it is the ennobled offspring of self-love; though, it must be confessed, grave and pompous vanity, Iike a fat plebeian in a rove of office, does very often assume its name.

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

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

There's a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It's deceptive because when you have pride, you're usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn't sell well.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

Pride is about the ugliest trait somebody can have.

I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

If I was sharp in every area, I might be too big-headed or something.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

Pride and vanity, the opposites of humility, can destroy our spiritual health as surely as a debilitating disease can destroy our physical health.

It all goes completely to your head.

Unbridled arrogance is worse than pride; for if pride will not break a superior, arrogance will not brook and equal.

The more people that praise you, the more there is danger to develop arrogance.