C. S. Lewis Quotes

There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.

Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up.

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

To be vain of one's rank or place is to show that one is below it.

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

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.

Conceit is thinking you're great; egotism is knowing it.

If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.

Pride eradicates all vices but itself.

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.

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

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.

Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.

We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.

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.

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.

Those that know the least of others think the highest of themselves.

Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.

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

Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all.

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.

Let us watch against PRIDE in every shapepride of intellect, pride of wealth, pride in our own goodness.

Pride is when sinful human beings aspire to the status and position of God and refuse to acknowledge their dependence upon Him.

There is no harder lesson for man to learn than the lesson of humility. It is the rarest of all gifts. It is a very rare thing to find a man or woman that is following closely the footsteps of the Master in meekness and humility.