"When a proud man hears another praised he feels himself injured."

— English proverb 🌻

"A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride."

— J. D. Salinger 🌻

"I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds."

— Bertrand Russell 🌻

"Pride perceiving humility honourable often borrows her cloak."

— Thomas Fuller 🌻

"There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous but prevents others from becoming so."

— Charles Caleb Colton 🌻

"Pride had rather go out of the way than go behind."

— Thomas Fuller 🌻

"They are proud in humility proud in that they are not proud."

— Henry Burton 🌻

"Pride ruined the angels."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson 🌻