Joseph Addison Pride Quotations

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

There is no passion that steals into the heart more imperceptibly and covers itself under more disguises than pride.

I would have every zealous man examine his heart thoroughly, and I believe he will often find that what be calls a zeal for his religion is either pride, interest, or ill-repute.

The pride of woman, natural to her, never sleeps until modesty is gone.

Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance.

Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.

Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.

The peacock in all his pride does not display half the colors that appear in the garments of a British lady when she is dressed.

Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.

One would wonder to hear skeptical men disputing for the reason of animals, and telling us it is only our pride and prejudices that will not allow them the use of that faculty. Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately regards his own preservation, or the continuance of his species. Animals in their generation are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. Take a brute out of his instinct, and you find him wholly deprived of understanding.