My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.

The nobility of England would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount. But you'll labor like scholars over a bulldogs pedigree.

Pride tells me to give it back, but common sense tells pride to shut up, have a joint and relax. I shrug and put the note into my wallet.

Pride is what got Lucifer kicked out of heaven. It's a poison destroying our communities. That definitely should be a target of ours.

Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself.

And metaphors like cats behind your smile,Each one wound up to purr,each one a pride,Each one a fine gold beast you've hid inside (...)

She, however, attentively watched my looks, and her artist's pride was gratified, no doubt, to read my heartfelt admiration in my eyes.

You wear your honor like a suit of armor... You think it keeps you safe, but all it does is weigh you down and make it hard for you to move.

A Pagan is a man eminently convertible to Christianity. The post-Christian man differs from him as much as a divorcee differs from a virgin.

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.

The queen who mended her stockings in prison must have looked every inch a queen and even more a queen than at sumptuous banquets and levees.

As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal there will be those who will delight to offer affront to your idol.

English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and arrogant-down (directed at the small guy).

All of the years I spent trying to be someone you could be proud of would have been better spent being proud of myself for who I already was.

Don't pretend to be what you're not, instead, pretend to what you want to be, it is not pretence, it is a journey to self realization.