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''forgive that I'd think:

''I was the [[Fairest of Them All]],

''I was the biggest of the small,

''I was the sharpest in the shed,

''I was the brightest of the head.''|'''Starflyer 59''', "The Brightest of the Head"}}

{{quote|''"April 4; shot rings out in the Memphis sky. Free at last, they took your life, they could not, take your..." ''|'''U2''', "In the Name of Love"}}

''To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:

''Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n.''|'''John Milton'''}}

{{quote|''"The night of the fight, you may feel a slight sting. That's pride fucking with you. Fuck pride. Pride only hurts, it never helps."''|'''[[Scary Black Man|Marcellus Wallace]]''', ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'', telling Butch Coolidge to [[Throwing the Fight|throw a big fight]].}}

{{quote|Pride is not a sin. Hubris is not a failing. The galaxy is not a mere collection of stars, it is our birthright! For too long have men looked up the infinite expanses of darkness before them and looked back inward, seeking solance in their huddled, weak soulfires. I see the black depths before me and all I can see is an eternity of war and conquest in the Emperor's name.|''Lord Solar Macharius'', '''[[Warhammer 40000]]'''}}

{{quote|'''Pooh-Bah''': ''I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite [[Blue Blood|ancestral descent]]. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal atomic globule. Consequently, my family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering. But I struggle hard to overcome this defect. I mortify my pride continually. When all the great officers of state resigned in a body, because they were too proud to serve under an ex-tailor, did I not unhesitantly accept all their posts at once?''|'''[[Gilbert and Sullivan|The Mikado]]'''}}

{{quote|''For you can have no greater sign of a more confirmed pride, than when you think that you are humble enough.''|'''William Law'''}}

{{quote|''All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only sin is pride.''|'''Sophocles''', ''Antigone''}}

{{quote|''Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.''|'''[[G. K. Chesterton]]'''}}

{{quote|'''''Question''': How many bosses does it take to [[Light Bulb Joke|change a light bulb]]?<br />

{{quote|''In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself; you will see it, perhaps, often in this history; for, even if I could conceive that I had compleatly overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility.''|'''[[Benjamin Franklin]]'''}}