William Shakespeare Quotes

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

The proud are ever most provoked by pride.

Conceit is an outward manifestation of inferiority.

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.

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're all victims of our own hubris at times.

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

Pride is about the ugliest trait somebody can have.

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

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

Arrogance - I have very little tolerance for that.

Frankly, my head can never be bloated.

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.

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.

Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up.

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

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

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.

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.

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

They who prosper take on airs of vanity.

It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend.

Conceit spoils the finest genius.

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