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View Quote My pride fell with my fortunes.
View Quote William Shakespeare, As You Like It (c. 1599-1600), Act I, scene 2.
View Quote Why, who cries out on pride,That can therein tax any private party?Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea.
View Quote William Shakespeare, As You Like It (c.1599-1600), Act II, scene 7, line 70.
View Quote Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk.
View Quote William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (1611), Act III, scene 3, line 24.
View Quote She bears a duke's revenues on her back,And in her heart she scorns our poverty.
View Quote William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part II (c. 1590-91), Act I, scene 3, line 83.
View Quote I have ventur'd,Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders,This many summers in a sea of glory,But far beyond my depth: my high-blown prideAt length broke under me.
View Quote William Shakespeare, Henry VIII (c. 1613), Act III, scene 2, line 358.
View Quote He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle; and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.
View Quote William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida (c. 1602), Act II, scene 3, line 164.
View Quote I do hate a proud man, as I hate the engendering of toads.
View Quote William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida (c. 1602), Act II, scene 3, line 169.
View Quote He is so plaguy proud that the death tokens of itCry "No recovery."
View Quote William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida (c. 1602), Act II, scene 3, line 187.
View Quote Pride hath no other glassTo show itself but pride, for supple kneesFeed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.
View Quote William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida (c. 1602), Act III, scene 3, line 47.
View Quote O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!
View Quote William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (c. 1601-02), Act III, scene 1, line 138.
View Quote Man's highest blessednessIn wisdom chiefly stands;And in the things that touch upon the Gods,Tis best in word of deedTo shun unholy pride;Great words of boasting bring great punishments;And so to gray-haired age Comes wisdom at the last.
View Quote Sophocles, "Antigone", lines 1531-1538,Translation by Edward H. Plumptre.
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