Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self but unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole but at all points repels -Charles Caleb Colton.Pride like humility, is destroyed by one’s insistence that he possesses it -Kenneth P.Pride is to character, like the attic to the house … the highest part, and generally the most empty -John Gay.Pride is as loud a beggar as want -Benjamin Franklin.My pride stung like a slapped cheek -John Hersey.Looking very proud like he’s discovered some sort of rare bird -Hilary Masters.Like a freshly lit lamp, expanding and bright with triumph -Julia O’Faolain.For a man to say all the excellent things that can be said upon one, and call that his Epitaph, is as if a painter should make the handsomest piece he can possibly make, and say ‘twas my picture -John Selden.Felt so proud, as though he had saved a life -Mary Hood.Felt pride rising up through his chest like gas -Margaret Millar.The pride thus described in Johnson’s novel, The Good Husband, is caused by the admiring glances lavished upon an attractive companion. Felt as though he had feathers which had puffed up with pride -Pamela Hansford Johnson.Dignified and beautiful as a Beethoven sonata -Israel Zangwill.Beamed pride … like a mother whose son has won everything on school prize day -Louis Bromfield.Accepts as proudly as the mother of a Bar Mitzvah boy accepts his cracked-voice singing at the sabbath service -Ira Wood.
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