Malorie Blackman Quotes

They that soar too high, often fall hard.

They are raised on high that they may be dashed to pieces with a greater fall.

There's a reason they say,"Pride goeth before a fall.

Pryde will have a fall;For pryde goeth before and shame commeth after.

How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That's not a guess, it's a guarantee. With pride, it's not a matter of 'if' we will fall, but 'when.' There are no exceptions.

Be careful of success; it has a dark side.

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.

Success can set the table for tragedy if the victors are not careful.

When I'm considering an idea, and there is an element of hubris involved, I generally feel comfortable that it's going to be a good story. Pride goeth before a fall. It's an element of a lot of big stories.

When as smart as you think you are is as wrong as you turn out to be, your life can fall out from under you.

You have seen in football that if you start to think you are the 'Special One,' or that you are better than the others, that is the moment when you will be beaten.

Pride goes before destruction.

Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise.

I'm keenly aware of the Pride coming before the Fall . . . but I really do like what I've been able to do here.

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

In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in disgrace, Are wretched and nobody pities their Case.

Arrogance is a weed which grows upon a dunghill; it is from the rankness of the soil that she has her height and spreadings: witness, clowns, fools, and fellows, who from nothing, are lifted up some few steps on fortune's ladder: where, seeing the glorious representment of honour above them, they are so eager to embrace it, that they strive to leap thither at once, and by over-reaching themselves in the way, they fail of the end, and fall.

Arrogance rides triumphantly through the gates, barely glancing at the old woman about to cut the rope and spring shut the trap.

If you're at the top, then brace for the fall.

Pride goeth before the fall....but you've already fallen, haven't you?

If you let your head get too big, it'll break your neck.

That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.