Quotes about pride
"The seven deadlies [Deadly Sins] are pretty deadly, especially pride." When he was asked if that was the sin he struggles with most, Grammer replied: "It has certainly been one of mine, but I’ve tested all of them. See, it’s not that the Bible says you can’t do it; it’s that you shouldn’t. The wages of sin is death. And they’re not talking about physical death—they’re talking about spiritual death. And when you overindulge in those things, your spirit ends up destroyed."
Kelsey Grammer, who plays Beast in the new X-Men movie, also player Frasier Crane in Frasier - interviewed in Maxim
“A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.”
CS Lewis, Christian author and academic who wrote The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
"The seven deadly sins are especially lethal if combined. We know from each weeks crimes what lust plus rage will do. The cocktail swallowed by the victims of pyramid schemes is avarice plus sloth: they want to be rich but don't want to work for it or even make the small effort to ask how a fortune can be so easily earned.
There are 21 pairs of the seven deadly sins, some essential to commerce: without envy plus pride, for example, the fashion trade would wither. I began to calculate the money making opportunities of sins bundled in threes or fours, but innumeracy [today's eighth deadly sin] and sloth combined to prevent me."
Michael Bird in a letter to The Times, January 1997
"Pride has a split personality, the one we call 'self-respect' is essential to our well being, but it has a dark twin who always lurks in the shadows nearby and, like a suicide bomber, his finger is always poised over the self-destruct button. You need to understand how this emotional terrorist behaves and take urgent steps to prevent him pushing the button."
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