Arthur Helps Quotes

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.

Boasting is the outward form of the inner condition of pride.

The proud are ever most provoked by pride.

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.

We should take heed of pride; it is a sin that turned angels into devils.

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

Pride is like the beautiful acacia, that lifts its head proudly above its neighbor plants-forgetting that it too, like them, has its roots in the dirt.

In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride. It is always considered as a sin.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

Prosperity often leads to pride, which leads to sin.

Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion. I repeat: Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion.

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.

Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of.

Vanity is a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs, and chuck us over; but pride is a fine horse, that will carry us over the ground, and enable us to distance our fellow-travelers.

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

I look upon pride as a sin.

Pride is about the ugliest trait somebody can have.

It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.

Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them.

Pride is at the bottom of a great many errors and corruptions, and even of many evil practices, which have a great show and appearance of humility.

Pride erects a little kingdom of its own, and acts as sovereign in it.

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.

A proud heart and a lofty mountain are never fruitful.

Pride never sleeps. The principle at least is always awake. An intemperate man is sometimes sober, but a proud man is never humble.

Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most commonly afflicts the gardener.