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| Proud of his learning (just enough to quote), He revell'd in his Ciceronian glory: With memory excellent to get by rote, With wit to hatch a pun or tell a story, Graced with some merit, and with more effrontery, 'His country's pride,' he came down to | | Lord Byron | |
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| That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty | | Seneca | |
| The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great. | | Voltaire | |
| The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny | | Mark Twain | |
| The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age. | | George Santayana | |
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| The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance. | | Samuel Butler | |
| The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other | | Charles Caleb Colton | |
| There are two kinds of curiosity: the first drives us to seek what serves our own advantage; the other is pride in knowing what others don’t know. | | François de la Rochefoucauld | |
| There is this paradox in pride it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so | | Charles Caleb Colton | |
| They take their pride in making their dinner cost much; I take my pride in making my dinner cost little | | Henry David Thoreau | |
| Unless Americans come to realize that they are not stronger in the world because they have the bomb but weaker because of their vulnerability to atomic attack, they are not likely to conduct their policy at Lake Success [the United Nations] or in the | | Albert Einstein | |
| Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us. | | Jane Austen | |
| We are rarely proud when we are alone. | | Voltaire | |
| When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom | | Bible | |
| When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom | | Bible | |
| Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise, - His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies | | Alexander Pope | |
| Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise; His pride in reasoning, not in acting, lies | | Alexander Pope | |
