George Eliot Pride Quotations

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.

One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.

I can't abide to see men throw away their tools i' that way, the minute the clock begins to strike, as if they took no pleasure i' their work, and was afraid o' doing a stroke too much.... I hate to see a man's arms drop down as if he was shot, before the clock's fairly struck, just as if he'd never a bit o' pride and delight in's work. The very grindstone 'ull go on turning a bit after you loose it.

A proud woman who has learned to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission, and looks down with severe superiority on all feminine assumption as unbecoming.

... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect.

How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?

Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.

You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well.