Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

Quote by Samuel Johnson

Topics: Pride Quotes

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be...

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be...

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward...

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward...

Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument

Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking...

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking...

Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people

Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people

The insolence of wealth will creep out

The insolence of wealth will creep out

Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey...

Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey...

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of...

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of...

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world...

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world...

Example is always more efficacious than precept.

Example is always more efficacious than precept.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty

He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expenses

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expenses

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by...

I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by...

Hope is itself a species of happiness and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world...

Hope is itself a species of happiness and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world...

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know...

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know...

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are...

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are...

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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.