"Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, 'Let no more riches enter!'" - Aeschylus

"Shame is Pride's cloak." - William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

"There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so." - Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon

"If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven't a chance." - William S. Gilbert

"The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of; the last he does not concern himself about." - William Hazlitt

"Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man." - C. S. Lewis

"The essence of a self-reliant and autonomous culture is an unshakeable egoism." - Henry Louis Mencken

"What is pride? A whizzing rocket that would emulate a star." - William Wordsworth

"Our true nationality is mankind." - Wells, H. G.