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“A wise man has dignity without pride; a fool has pride without dignity.”

Men Wise Pride Fool Dignity

Author:Confucius

“I know very well that because I am unlettered some presumptuous people will think they have the right to criticize me, saying that I am an uncultured man. What stupid fools! Do they not know that I could reply to them as Marius did to the Roman patricians: "Do those who pride themselves on the works of other men claim to challenge mine?”

People Thinking Knows Men Wells Challenges Education Stupid Mines Pride Fool Claims Criticize Presumptuous Marius

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“A liar is a man who does now know how to deceive, a flatterer one who only deceives fools: he who knows how to make skilful use of the truth, and understands its eloquence, can alone pride himself in cleverness.”

Knows Men Doe Use Lying Know How Pride Fool Liars Deceiving Eloquence Cleverness Flatterer

Author:Luc de Clapiers

“Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness.”

Men Sometimes Pain Young Pride Fool Bears Young Man Foolishness Badges

Author:Robert Jordan

“Christians believe themselves to be the aristocracy of heaven upon earth, they are admitted to the spiritual court, while millions of men in foreign lands have never been presented. They bow their knees and say they are 'miserable sinners,' and their hearts rankle with abominable pride. Poor infatuated fools! Their servility is real and their insolence is real but their king is a phantom and their palace is a dream.”

Source: The Martyrdom of Man

“Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.”

Men World Want Three Language Knowing Source Pride Fool Ill Manners Behave Defects

Book:The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions

Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions

“Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day; So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe.”

Pride Fool Proud Breasts Woe Pageant

Book:The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. Edited by the Rev. H. F. Cary, Etc

Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. Edited by the Rev. H. F. Cary, Etc

“When you've just made the most complete fool of yourself, you feel the need of a specially high horse to ride.”

Needs Feels Made Pride Fool Horse

Author:Patricia Wentworth

“Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims distinction most.”

Pride Fool Claims Distinction Boast

Book:Gay's Fables and other poems: Cotton's visions in verse ; Moore's Fables for the female sex ; with sketches of the authors' lives

Source: Gay's Fables and other poems: Cotton's visions in verse ; Moore's Fables for the female sex ; with sketches of the authors' lives

“I come from a generation where I couldn't even contemplate such a thing. I find it amazing... You can become a multi-millionaire as a club player without playing international football. But international football is about individual pride and wanting to perform at the highest level. If I got picked at 41, I would have played, even if I thought I would make a fool of myself. I just wanted to play for my country.”

Ifs Country Play Wanted Individual Levels Player Generations Football Pride Fool Highest International Clubs Contemplating Millionaire

Author:Trevor Brooking

“Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.”

Failing Pride Fool Vices Erring Haughtiness

Book:The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes [&c.] by G. Croly

Source: The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes [&c.] by G. Croly

“Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.”

Sometimes Effort Poverty Pride Fool Thousand Stress Hardship Climbing Humiliation Petty

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.”

Men Mind Causes Failing Failure Pride Fool Weak Blind Vices Judgement Strongest Bias Blind Man Erring

Book:The poetical works of Alexander Pope. To which is prefixed the life of the author

Source: The poetical works of Alexander Pope. To which is prefixed the life of the author

“Pride is a fool's fortress”

Pride Fool Fortresses

Book:Topaz

Source: Topaz