Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty.

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

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

It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.

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

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

Conceit is an outward manifestation of inferiority.

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.

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.

Is it arrogance if one is truly superior?

Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility.

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.

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

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

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

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

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.

I'm not great enough to be humble.

I have no business carrying myself like some diva.

We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

I don't want you to think I'm better than people or that I know better than people.

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.

Frankly, my head can never be bloated.

A proud heart and a lofty mountain are never fruitful.