Judith Martin Quotes

In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance.

One may be humble out of pride.

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.

The opposite of humility is arrogance--the belief that we are wiser or better than others. Arrogance promotes separation rather than community. It looms like a brick wall between us and those from whom we could learn.

Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

I said I was 'The Greatest,' I never said I was the smartest!

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

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

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

I think I know it all, relatively speaking.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be.

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

I'm not great enough to be humble.

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.

We’ve been an arrogant country.

I have no business carrying myself like some diva.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

One must be arrogant, indeed, to imagine that one can take everything in one's hand and know everything!

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