Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Hatch

I take pride in being a results-oriented person.

Bill Freeman

I think it's just pride in the United States, period,

William Wordsworth

I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride; Of him who walked in glory and in joy, Following his plough, along the mountain-side. By our own spirits we are deified; We Poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.

Robert Mugabe

We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.

Samuel Johnson

Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his industry.

Salman Rushdie

We who have grown up on a diet of honour and shame can still grasp what must seem unthinkable to people living in the aftermath of the death of God and of tragedy: that men will sacrifice their dearest love on the implacable altars of their pride.

Salman Rushdie

As I look back, I feel a touch of pride at my younger self's dedication to literature, which gave him the strength of mind to resist the blandishments of the enemies of promise. The sirens of ad-land sang sweetly and seductively, but I thought of Odysseus lashing himself to the mast of his ship, and somehow stayed on course.

Wesley Snipes

My sign is Leo. A Leo has to walk with pride. When he takes a step, he has to put his foot down. You walk into a room and you want people to know your presence, without you doing anything.

W. S. Gilbert

My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

Oscar Wilde

The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.

Kathy Griffin

Food is my thing, I do not smoke or drink, so food is my vice.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is a great thing to know your vices.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .

Kevin Keegan

Luis Figo is totally different to David Beckham, and vice versa.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.

Juliette Binoche

I was so happy when they cast me in Chocolat, because it's one of my vices.

Ouida

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

Ronald Reagan

Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If there is no immortality, there is no virtue

David Brooks

There is a virtue in shamelessness.

William Shakespeare

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

Bernard Meltzer

One of the great virtues of our democratic system is that only one of the candidates gets elected.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue

Benjamin Franklin

Seek virtue and of that posest, to Providence resign the rest.

Benjamin Franklin

Strict punctuality is a cheap virtue.

Juvenal

So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.