Mark Twain Quotes About Pride
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Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.
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Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.
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Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.
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The kernel, the soul let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances is plagiarism. For substantially all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and daily used by the garnerer with a pride and satisfaction born of the superstition that he originated them; whereas there is not a rag of originality about them anywhere except the little discoloration they get from his mental and moral calibre and his temperament, and which is revealed in characteristics of phrasing.
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I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.
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We had an abundance of mangoes, papaias and bananas here, but the pride of the islands, the most delicious fruit known to men, cherimoya, was not in season. It has a soft pulp, like a pawpaw, and is eaten with a spoon.
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The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny
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What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery!
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Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it.
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Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.
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I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.
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