'Tis pride, rank pride, and haughtiness of soul; I think the Romans call it stoicism.

-Addison,Joseph
  Cato, act1, sc.4, l.82^3.

Pees maketh plente; Plente maketh pride; Pride make plee; Plee maketh povert; Povert maketh pees. Peace makes plenty; Plenty makes pride; Pride makes lawsuits; Lawsuits make poverty; Poverty makes peace.

-Anonymous
c.1470  Untitled lyric.

Beaucoup d'hommes ont un orgueil qui les pousse a' cacher leurs combats et a'   ne se montrer que victorieux. Many men have pride that causes them to hide their combats and to only show themselves victorious. '

-Balzac, Honore¤   de
La Recherche de l'absolu.

I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Samuel17:28.

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

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs16:18.

The Pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

-Blake,William
  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell,'Proverbs of Hell'.

He that is down needs fear no fall, He that is low no pride. He that is humble ever shall Have God to be his guide.

-Bunyan,John
  The Pilgrim's Progress, pt.2.

How beautiful is all this visible world! How glorious in its action and itself! But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we, Half dust, half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar, with our mixed essence make A conflict of its elements, and breathe The breath of degradation and of pride.

-Rochdale
  Manfred, act1, sc.2.

So I lie, whose fount of pride, Dear distress, and joy allied, Is my somber flesh and skin, With the dark blood dammed within.

-Cullen, Countee
  On These I Stand,'Heritage'.

L |' si vedra'   la superbia ch'asseta, che fa lo Scotto e l'Inghilese folle, s |' che non puo'   soffrir dentro a sua meta. There shall you see the pride which causes thirst, which makes the Scots and the English mad, so that they cannot remain within their boundaries.

-Dante Alighieri originally Durante
c.1320  Divina Commedia,'Paradiso', canto1, l.121^3.

Tempt me no more; for I Have known the lightning's hour, The poet's inward pride, The certainty of power.

-Day-Lewis, Cecil
  The Magnetic Mountain, pt.3, no.24.

Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate, That few, but such as cannot write, translate.

-Denham, SirJohn
  'To Richard Fanshaw'.

What argufies pride and ambition? Soon or late death will take us in tow: Each bullet has got its commission, And when our time's come we must go.

-Diaz, Porfirio
'Each Bullet Has Got Its Commission'. First published1803.

My thoughtless youth was winged with vain desires, My manhood, long misled by wandering fires, Followed false lights; and when their glimpse was gone My pride struck out new sparkles of her own† Good life be now my task: my doubts are done; (What more could fright my faith thanThree in One?)

-Dryden,John
  The Hind and the Panther, pt.1, l.71^6.

As a matter of racial pride we want to be called blacks. Which has replaced the term Afro-American.Which replaced Negroes.Which replaced colored people. Which replaced darkies.Which replaced blacks.

-Feiffer,Jules
Quoted in William Safire Language Maven Strikes  Again (1990).

Fond Pride of Dress is sure an Empty Curse; E'er Fancy you consult, consult your Purse.

-Franklin, Benjamin
Poor Richard Improved, May.

L'orgueil sort du coeur le jour o  u' l'amour y entre. Pride leaves the heart the moment love enters it.

-Gautier,The¤  ophile
  Mademoiselle de Maupin.

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey Where wealth accumulates and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.

-Goldsmith, Oliver
  The Deserted Village, l.51^6.

A wise nation preserves its records, gathers up its muniments, decorates the tombs of its illustrious dead, repairs its great public structures, and fosters national pride and love of country, by perpetual references to the sacrifices and glories of the past.

-Howe,Joseph

I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Remark,10 Oct, alluding to Jeremiah Markland. Quoted in James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.4.