""What is the Unpardonable Sin?" asked the lime-burner; and then he shrank farther from his companion, trembling lest his question should be answered. "It is a sin that grew within my own breast," replied Ethan Brand, standing erect with a pride that distinguishes all enthusiasts of his stamp. "A sin that grew nowhere else! The sin of an intellect that triumphed over the sense of brotherhood with man and reverence for God, and sacrificed everything to its own mighty claims!"

"His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal."

"In reality there is, perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive and will every now and then peep out and show itself; you will see it, perhaps, often in this history. For even if I could conceive that I had completely overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility."

"Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by."

"The same pride which makes a man treat haughtily his inferiors, makes him cringe servilely to those above him. It is the very nature of this vice, which is neither based on personal merit nor on virtue, but on riches, posts, influence, and useless knowledge, to render a man as supercilious to those who are below him as to over-value those who are above."

"I have learned that pride blinds almost as much as ignorance."

"An lifted his head in pride and brought forth a good day."

"Remember that pride is the worst viper that is in the heart, the greatest disturber of the soul's peace and sweet communion with Christ; it was the first sin that ever was, and lies lowest in the foundation of Satan's whole building, and is the most difficultly rooted out, and is the most hidden, secret and deceitful of all lusts, and often creeps in, insensibly, into the midst of religion and sometimes under the disguise of humility."

"Man is the proudest of God's creatures, the eagle is the haughtiest amongst the birds, the ox amongst the cattle, and the lion amongst the beasts of the field. Hence it was the image of these four which Ezekiel saw in his vision on the throne of God."

"Let pride go afore, shame will follow after."

"Pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees."

"Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter."

"There are people who are known to be very liberal, yet they never give without scolding or pride or even insolence.'"

"And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass."

"Raalt looked as if he were swallowing something that went down hard and tasted bad. He was; it was his pride."

"They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud."

"As if true pride Were not also humble!"

"Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised."

"The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble. Let us keep our end in view, let us press forward to our goal. Let us not indulge in pride, nor give in to our sinful passions. Let us steadily exert ourselves to reach a higher degree of holiness till we shall finally arrive at a perfection of goodness which we seek and pursue as long as we live, but which we shall attain then only, when, freed from all earthly infirmity, we shall be admitted by God into his full communion."

"Evil does not approach us as pride any more, but on the contrary as slumber, lassitude, concealment of the "I." … It may make us so quickly contented, that any definitive fire will die down. The venomous, breathtaking frigid mist seems able … to harden hearts and fill them with envy, obduracy and resentment, with bloody scorn for the divine image and light, with all the causes of the only true original sin, which is not wanting to be like God."

"Pride, when permitted full sway, is the great undying cankerworm which gnaws the very vitals of a man's worldly possessions, let them be small or great, hundreds or millions."

"O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!"

"If God has bestowed on us any excellent gift, we imagine it to be our own achievement; and we swell and even burst with pride."

"Humilitas homines sanctis angelis similes facit, et superbia ex angelis demones facit."

"Pride leads us into traps. But patience... Patience brings great rewards."

"As proud as Lucifer."

"Every man at his best state is altogether vanity."

"Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance they are altogether lighter than vanity."

"Il est difficile d'estimer quelqu'un comme il veut l'être."

"Vain? Let it be so! Nature was her teacher, What if a lovely and unsistered creature Loved her own harmless gift of pleasing feature."

""Vanitas vanitatum" has rung in the ears Of gentle and simple for thousands of years; The wail still is heard, yet its notes never scare Either simple or gentle from Vanity Fair."

"How many saucy airs we meet, From Temple Bar to Aldgate Street!"

"What is your sex's earliest, latest care, Your heart's supreme ambition? To be fair."

"Maud Muller looked and sighed: "Ah me! That I the Judge's bride might be! He would dress me up in silks so fine, And praise and toast me at his wine.""

"There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass."

"Hoy-day, what a sweep of vanity comes this way!"

"Have we raised ourselves up to that outlook opposed to the world, and have we tried to destroy the esteem and love for it in all hearts?"

"Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself."

"Certainly human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself. On the other hand, everyone parades whatever pomp and splendour he can obtain by effort, and the more he is wanting in inner contentment, the more he desires to stand out as a lucky and fortunate person in the opinion of others. Folly goes to such lengths, and the opinion of others is a principal aim of the efforts of everyone, although the complete futility of this is expressed by the fact that in almost all languages vanity, vanitas, originally signifies emptiness and nothingness."

"Pride is an established conviction of one's own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction in others, and it is generally accompanied by the secret hope of ultimately coming to the same conviction oneself. Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without."

"Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion."

"Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity— * * * * * * That is not quickly buzz'd into his ears?"

"Here files of pins extend their shining rows, Puffs, powders, patches, bibles, billet-doux."

"On parle peu quand la vanité ne fait pas parler."

"Ce qui nous rend la vanité des autres insupportable, c'est qu'elle blesse la nôtre."

"And not a vanity is given in vain."

"Cada um tem a sua vaidade, e a vaidade de cada um é o seu esquecimento de que há outros com alma igual."

"Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return."

"Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all."