All GEORGE ELIOT Quotes about “Pride”

“Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.”
“There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.”
“One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.”
“How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?”
“... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect.”
“The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.”
“You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well.”
“A proud woman who has learned to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission, and looks down with severe superiority on all feminine assumption as unbecoming.”

More George Eliot quote about:

You may also like:

Charles Dickens
Writer
Charlotte Bronte
Novelist
Elizabeth Gaskell
Novelist
Emily Bronte
Novelist
Evelyn Waugh
Writer
George Henry Lewes
Philosopher
George Sand
Novelist
Jane Austen
Novelist
T. S. Eliot
Playwright
Thomas Hardy
Novelist
Virginia Woolf
Writer
William Makepeace Thackeray
Novelist