Ken Follett Quotes

Pride is a sweetmeat, to be savoured in small pieces; it makes for a poor feast.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.

If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin.

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

When I did the film 'Hear My Voice' a few years ago, I disappeared fully up my own backside for a while. Because I thought my career was taking off, I became a bit of an egomaniac and a pain in the neck. I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.

You can get a bit 'head in the clouds' - well, I do - and full of myself if I stick in front of the camera for too long. I forget there is hard work that needs to be done.

One may be humble out of pride.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.

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.

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.

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.

Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

Don't let your heart get big because of your knowledge. Take counsel with the ignorant as well as with the scholar.

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

When you succeed, you know, you can get swell-headed or you can be failing, and then you are all down in doldrums. So I try, as much as possible, to keep an even keel.

Ego can be a dangerous thing. We all have one but it needs to be contained.

I don't choose to be humble.

Oh Lord... I don't really do pride.

Frankly, my head can never be bloated.

You can sometimes get the big head and overlook things.

A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.