Misplaced Pride Quotes

People who, not being in love themselves, feel that a clever man should only be unhappy about a person who is worth his while; which is rather like being astonished that anyone should condescend to die of cholera at the bidding of so insignificant a creature as the comma bacillus.

Everyone in Annawadi talks like this: 'Oh, I will make my child a doctor, a lawyer, and he will make us rich'. It's vanity, nothing more. Your little boat goes west and you congratulate yourself, 'what a navigator I am!' And then the wind blows you east.

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

Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it's just an illusion.

Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.

I didn't fool myself into thinking I was world class just because I'd beaten James DeGale.

The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.

But liberals love to drape themselves in decades-old glories they had nothing to do with.

I was in New York last Christmas - it's snowing; there's a guy in a t-shirt. I'm like, 'Dude, aren't you cold?' 'No, I'm from New York. I don't get cold.' Just 'cause you're from a cold place doesn't mean you're genetically predisposed to not feeling cold. You're not a penguin. I was like, 'In fact, sir, you're Puerto Rican, so if anything, you should be more cold.

There are many kids in and out of baseball who think that just because they have some natural talent, they have the world by the tail.

The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.