‘Pride goes before destruction.’ Proverbs 16:18
‘And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride…’ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
‘Pride the first peer and president of hell.’ Daniel Defoe
‘…he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.’ Henry Ward Beecher
‘…It is coiled as a poisonous worm about the foundations of the soul.’ Martin Farquhar Tupper
‘Pride erects a little kingdom of its own, and acts as sovereign in it.’ William Hazlitt
‘Pride must be of itself something deformed and shameful, since it dares not show itself naked, and is forced to appear in a mask.’ Wellins Calcott