This sad little lizard told me that he was a brontosaurus on his mother's side. I did not laugh; people who boast of ancestry often have little else to sustain them.

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

The proud will sooner lose than ask their way.

Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.

Pride had rather go out of the way than go behind.

Pride, perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.

Be not proud of race, face, place, or grace.

The worst man is the one who sees himself as the best.

I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves; in pride of lineage so great as to despise no man's father; in pride of race so chivalrous as neither to offer bastardy to the weak nor beg wedlock of the strong, knowing that men may be brothers in Christ, even though they be not brothers-in-law.