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As proud as Lucifer.

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.

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

Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.

Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.

Pride Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.

Lord of human kind.

Too rigid scruples are concealed pride.

Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.

Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, Man passes from life to his rest in the grave.

What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

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.

Is this that haughty, gallant, gay Lothario?

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. - John Ruskin,

Why, who cries out on pride That can therein tax any private party? Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea Till that the weary very means do ebb?

O, this life Is nobler than attending for a check, Richer than doing nothing for a robe, Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk: Such pain the cap of him that makes him fine Yet keeps his book uncrossed.

He is so plaguy proud that the death-tokens of it Cry 'No recovery.'

He that is proud eats up himself. Pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle; and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.