“Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.” — J. B. Priestley, All about Ourselves: And Other Essays
Tag: Pride
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“Never let personal pride stand in the way of getting the right answer.” — Erwin H. Schell, The Technique of Executive Control
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“Like tragedy, comedy warns against the dangers of pride, but its emphasis shifts from crime to stupidity.” — Kenneth Burke, Attitudes Toward History
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“I took some pride in ‘not fulfilling my potential,’ in part because I was terrified that if I tried my hardest, the world would discover that I didn’t actually have that much potential.” — John Green, “Monopoly and Academic Decathlon,” The Anthropocene Reviewed (2020-04-30)
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“Our conjectures pass upon us for truths; we will know what we do not know, and often, what we cannot know: so mortifying to our pride is the bare suspicion of ignorance.” — Philip Stanhope, Letters To His Son (1756-12-14)
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“Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.” — Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
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“You can say of a man, He has lost his good spirits, his good temper, his love for others, his pride, his power of endurance, his hopefulness ; but who ever heard any one say of another, ‘He has lost his vanity.?’” — Arthur Helps, Brevia
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“It is not poverty, so much as pretence, that harasses a ruined man—the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse.” — Washington Irving, “The Wife,” The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon
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“The pride which follows the sudden emancipation of the mind from ignorance of any subject, is accompanied by a feeling that all the world must be in the state of darkness from which we have ourselves emerged.” — George Henry Lewes, The Principles of Success in Literature
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“I was brought up to be a good boy and proud of myself so I suppress all the things about me that are bad.” — Rik Mayall, TV Times (1991-01-19)
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