* Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
o Proverbs 16:18 (King James Version).

* My pride fell with my fortunes.
o William Shakespeare, As You Like It (c. 1599), Act i, Sc. 2.

* Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.
o George Chapman, Eastward Ho, Act iv, Sc. 1.

* Pryde will have a fall;
For pryde goeth before and shame commeth after.
o John Heywood, Proverbes, Part i, Chapter x.

* 'Tis pride, rank pride, and haughtiness of soul:
I think the Romans call it Stoicism.
o Joseph Addison, Cato, A Tragedy (1713), Act I, sc. iv.

 

 

* Pride, when permitted full sway, is the great undying cankerworm which gnaws the very vitals of a man's worldly possessions, let them be small or great, hundreds or millions.
o P. T. Barnum. ‘Sundry Business Enterprises’, Ch XIV, The Life of P. T. Barnum (1855)

* Never to blend our pleasure or our pride
With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
o William Wordsworth, Hart-leap Well, Part ii.

* As if true pride
Were not also humble!
o Robert Browning, In an Album.

* In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
o John Ruskin, Modern Painters (1856), Volume IV, part V, chapter III, section 22.