Quotations About / On: PRIDE

  • 41.
    Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes—and calls it his pride.
    (Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 5, p. 87, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). Beyond Good and Evil, "Fourth Part: Maxims and Interludes," section 73 (1886).)
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  • 42.
    It is a God-damned lie to say that these
    Saved, or knew, anything worth any man's pride.
    (Hugh MacDiarmid (1892-1978), Scottish poet. Another Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries (l. 1-2). . ; pseud. of Christopher Murray Grieve Selected Poetry [Hugh MacDiarmid]. Alan Riach and Michael Grieve, eds. (1992) New Directions.)
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  • 43.
    And after they have shown their pride
    Like you a while, they glide
    Into the grave.
    (Robert Herrick (1591-1674), British poet. To Blossoms (l. 16-18). . . Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.)
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  • 44.
    Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
    (Alexander Pope (1688-1744), British poet. Essay on Criticism (Fr. II). . . Poetical Works [Alexander Pope]. Herbert Davis, ed. (1978; repr. 1990) Oxford University Press.)
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  • 45.
    Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans.
    (Jane Addams (1860-1935), U.S. social worker and social reformer. Twenty Years at Hull-House, ch. 11 (1910). Addams was the founding director of Hull-House, a pioneer "settlement house" in a poor Chicago neighborhood populated largely by immigrants from Italian and Bohemian peasant backgrounds.)
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  • 46.
    A father's pride, laid on thick, has always made me wish that the fellow had at least experienced some pain during procreation.
    (Karl Kraus (1874-1936), Austrian writer. Trans. by Harry Zohn, originally published in Beim Wort genommen (1955). Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths, University of Chicago Press (1990).)
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  • 47.
    Th' inferior priestess, at her altar's side,
    Trembling, begins the sacred rites of pride.
    (Alexander Pope (1688-1744), British poet. The Rape of the Lock (Fr. I). . . Poetical Works [Alexander Pope]. Herbert Davis, ed. (1978; repr. 1990) Oxford University Press.)
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  • 48.
    Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust,
    Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
    (Alexander Pope (1688-1744), British poet. Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot. . . Poetical Works [Alexander Pope]. Herbert Davis, ed. (1978; repr. 1990) Oxford University Press.)
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  • 49.
    Arrogance frowns; pride smiles.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Sixth Selection, New York (1989).)
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  • 50.
    Snobbery is not the same thing as pride of class. Pride of class may not please us but we must at least grant that it reflects a social function. A man who exhibited class pride—in the day when it was possible to do so—may have been puffed up about what he was, but this ultimately depended on what he did. Thus, aristocratic pride was based ultimately on the ability to fight and administer. No pride is without fault, but pride of class may be thought of as today we think of pride of profession, toward which we are likely to be lenient. Snobbery is pride in status without pride in function. And it is an uneasy pride of status. It always asks, "Do I belong—do I really belong? And does he belong? And if I am observed talking to him, will it make me seem to belong or not to belong?" It is the peculiar vice not of aristocratic societies which have their own appropriate vices, but of bourgeois democratic societies.
    (Lionel Trilling (1905-1975), U.S. critic, educator. "Manners, Morals, and the Novel," The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society, Viking (1950).)
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