Pride Before a Fall Quotes

And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

If you're young and wild, you tend to believe your clippings. One day you're Hemingway. The next day you're nothing.

I was 24 when I was offered 'Doomwatch.' There was an option for a further series, and I turned it down. It is a wonderfully glorious thing to be unknowingly arrogant.

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

Nothing fails like success.

It is like a disease to think that an invincible status has been achieved after being satisfied with the past successful operations.

The minute you think, 'I have done it' or 'I know what is happening,' you will start to go down.

As soon as you're put on a pedestal, you're easily knocked off it.

A certain death of an artist is overconfidence.

The first movie, I was 23; I thought I knew everything, but my ego soon took an irrevocable blow.

There's an inherent danger in letting people think that they have perfected something. When they believe they've 'nailed it,' most people tend to sit back and rest on their laurels while countless others will be labouring furiously to better their work!

The worst thing that can happen for a writer is for a writer to start believing their own press. I think the industry, and the comics industry in particular, is littered with the bodies of writers who believed their own press. And you can see the moment they did, and then the work nosedives.

The insolence of base minds in success is boundless; and would scarce admit of a comparison, did not they themselves furnish us with one in the degrees of their abjection when evil returns upon them.

In fashion, the minute you say, 'I am successful,' is the minute you are going down.

The head raised too high even in good will be struck off too soon.