Chapter PREACHER to PRIDE of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

Young.—Night VII. Part II. Line 1131.

PRIAM’S CURTAIN.—Such a man, so faint, so spiritless,
So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone,
Drew Priam’s curtain in the dead of night.

Shakespeare.—King Henry IV. Part II. Act I. Scene I.

PRICE.—The most by ready cash—but all have prices,
From crowns to kicks, according to their vices.

Byron.—Don Juan, Canto V. Stanza 27.

Would he oblige me? let me only find
He does not think me what he thinks mankind.

Pope.—Epil. to the Satires, Dialogue I. Line 33.

[Here Pope alludes to Sir Robert Walpole, who was reported to have said that all men have their price, but Sir Robert’s language has been perverted. He was denouncing the declarations of pretended patriots, of whom he said “All those men have their price.”—See his Life, by Coxe.]

PRIDE.—As in some Irish houses, where things are so-so,
One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show;
But, for eating a rasher of what they take pride in,
They’d as soon think of eating the pan it is fried in.

Goldsmith.—The Haunch of Venison, Line 9.

Here beggar pride defrauds her daily cheer,
To boast one splendid banquet once a year.

Goldsmith.—The Traveller, Line 277.

PRIDE.—In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies;
All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies.
Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes,
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

Pope.—Essay on Man, Epi. I. Line 123.

My pride fell with my fortunes.

Shakespeare.—As You Like it, Act I. Scene 2.

To lordlings proud I tune my lay,
Who feast in bower or hall:
Though dukes they be, to dukes I say,
That pride will have a fall.

Gay.—Duke upon Duke, a Ballad.

Of all the causes which conspire to blind
Man’s erring judgment, and misguide the mind,
What the weak head with strongest bias rules,
Is Pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

Pope.—Essay on Criticism, Part II. Line 201.

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

Addison.—Cato, Act I. Scene 1.

He saw a cottage with a double coach-house,
A cottage of gentility!
And the devil did grin, for his darling sin
Is pride that apes humility.

Coleridge.—The Devil’s Thoughts. This verse is Coleridge’s, and not Southey’s: see the note to the seventh verse in the edition of 1829.