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"You may have invaded my mind and my body, but there's one thing a Saiyan always keeps! HIS PRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDE!"
— Vegeta, Dragon Ball Z
Escanor: I have no reason to feel hatred towards those beneath me. All I feel towards them is pity.
Estarossa: Such insolent pride!
Escanor: That is my sin.
Estarossa: Such insolent pride!
Escanor: That is my sin.
Comic Books
"It'd kill him to know that he could have stopped it if he'd just read an e-mail. It'd kill him to know that he could have stopped it if he was less like me. Pride. It's a top-seven original sin."
Comic Strips
Linus: Your friend [Woodstock] never came back, did he? Don't you miss him?
Snoopy: (What's to miss? Stupid bird!)
Linus: How can you be so bitter?
Snoopy: (Nobody's going to tell me how to read War and Peace!)
Linus: I'll bet you miss him, but you just won't admit it...
Snoopy: (We Beagles have a lot of pride!)
— Peanuts
Fan Works
"When a man or woman thinks themselves invincible you show them how wrong they are. You destroy them without hesitation, without remorse or pity."
— Kyril Sutherland, The Night Unfurls
Films — Animated
"But... no, you can't really blame greed.
No, that's stupid.
You see, it's got a worm inside.
Oh, yeah, that's right.
It's one that always needs to feed,
And it's never satisfied.
You get it?
And the more you try to find it,
The more it likes to hide. Okay?
Now listen — that is a nasty little worm.
And I like to call it 'pride.'"
No, that's stupid.
You see, it's got a worm inside.
Oh, yeah, that's right.
It's one that always needs to feed,
And it's never satisfied.
You get it?
And the more you try to find it,
The more it likes to hide. Okay?
Now listen — that is a nasty little worm.
And I like to call it 'pride.'"
— The Lorax, in the Cut Song "Biggering", The Lorax (2012)
Films — Live Action
"Vanity is definitely my favorite sin. Self-love, the all-natural opiate. It's not like you didn't care for Mary Ann, Kevin. You were just a little more involved with someone else: yourself."
"The arrogance of man is thinking nature is in our control and not the other way around."
— Dr. Ishirō Serizawa, Godzilla (2014)
"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."
"Do you know what your sin is, Doctor? It's pride."
— The Operative, Serenity
Literature
"Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall."
'I understand Miss Weatherwax is a very proud woman,' said Letice.
Nanny Ogg puffed at her pipe again.
'You might as well say the sea is full of water,' she said.
The other witches were silent for a moment.
'I daresay that was a valuable comment,' said Letice, 'but I didn't understand it.'
'If there ain't no water in the sea, it ain't the sea,' said Nanny Ogg. 'It's just a damn great hole in the ground. Thing about Esme is ...' Nanny took another noisy pull at the pipe, 'she's all pride, see? She ain't just a proud person.'
'Then perhaps she should learn to be a bit more humble...'
'What's she got to be humble about?' said Nanny sharply.
Nanny Ogg puffed at her pipe again.
'You might as well say the sea is full of water,' she said.
The other witches were silent for a moment.
'I daresay that was a valuable comment,' said Letice, 'but I didn't understand it.'
'If there ain't no water in the sea, it ain't the sea,' said Nanny Ogg. 'It's just a damn great hole in the ground. Thing about Esme is ...' Nanny took another noisy pull at the pipe, 'she's all pride, see? She ain't just a proud person.'
'Then perhaps she should learn to be a bit more humble...'
'What's she got to be humble about?' said Nanny sharply.
"I do not dance to the Fallen's tune, Knight. We may move together, but I play the music. I set the beat. For nearly two thousand years I followed my path, through every treacherous bend and twist, through every temptation to turn aside, and after centuries of effort and study and planning and victory, they follow my leadership. Not the other way around. Turn aside from my path? I have blazed it through ages of humanity, through centuries of war and plague and madness and havoc and devotion. I am my path and it is me. There is no turning aside."
— Nicodemus Archleone, The Dresden Files
William of Baskerville: You see already that in both cases, our abbot is concerned for the good name of his monastery. Murderer or next victim as he may be, he does not want defamatory news about this holy community to travel beyond these mountains. Kill his monks but do not touch the honor of his abbey. Ah by... [growing angry] That bastard of a feudal lord, that peacock who gained fame for having been the Aquinas's gravedigger, that inflated wineskin who exists only because he wears a ring as big as the bottom of a glass! Proud, proud, all of you Cluniacs, worse than princes, more baronial than barons!
Adso of Melk: Master...
William of Baskerville: You be quiet, you are made of the same stuff. Your band are not simple men or sons of the simple. If a peasant comes along, you may receive him, but as I saw yesterday, you do not hesitate to hand him over to the secular arm. But not one of your own, no; he must be shielded. Abo is capable of identifying the wretch, stabbing him in the treasure crypt and passing out his kidneys among the reliquaries, provided the honor of the abbey is saved. Have a Franciscan, a plebeian Minorite, discover the rat's nest of this holy house? Ah, no, that is something Abo cannot allow at any price. "Thank you, Brother William, the Emperor needs you, you see what a beautiful ring I have, goodbye."
Adso of Melk: Master...
William of Baskerville: You be quiet, you are made of the same stuff. Your band are not simple men or sons of the simple. If a peasant comes along, you may receive him, but as I saw yesterday, you do not hesitate to hand him over to the secular arm. But not one of your own, no; he must be shielded. Abo is capable of identifying the wretch, stabbing him in the treasure crypt and passing out his kidneys among the reliquaries, provided the honor of the abbey is saved. Have a Franciscan, a plebeian Minorite, discover the rat's nest of this holy house? Ah, no, that is something Abo cannot allow at any price. "Thank you, Brother William, the Emperor needs you, you see what a beautiful ring I have, goodbye."
"Here we may reign secure, and in my choyce
To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n."
To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n."
"Are you wounded, Master Yoda?" Bail asked.
"Only my pride," Yoda said, and meant it, though Bail could not possibly understand how deep that wound went, nor how it bled. "Only my pride."
"Only my pride," Yoda said, and meant it, though Bail could not possibly understand how deep that wound went, nor how it bled. "Only my pride."
"You elected to summon me because my genius for magic exceeds that of all the rest of my race. Because I have been the servant and confidential friend of Thomas Godbless, Ralph Stokesey, Martin Pale and of the Raven King. Because I am valorous, chivalrous, generous and handsome as the day is long! That is all quite understood! It would have been madness to summon anyone else! We both know who I am. The question is: who in the world are you?"
— The Gentleman with the Thistle-Down Hair, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Live-Action TV
"Pride makes a good servant but a poor master."
— Uncle Jesse, The Dukes of Hazzard
Music
God forbid that I thought,
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.
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"
Tabletop Games
I assume you await confessions. Lists of names, perhaps, of those who joined me on my moonlit revels? Of those whose properties you can add to your church's rolls? Of those whose unholy suggestions singed my ears to brimstone promises and tempted me, like some quivering virgin, to spread my soul like a harlot's legs and let the Devil in? I'm afraid you will be disappointed, my kind and dour keepers. If you expect a testament of denunciations, you must look to other men. I, you see, am far to proud of my depredations to share credit with the innocent. Pride may be a sin, but it is most delicious on one's tongue.
The Lasombra are not stewards, for they do not hold power on behalf of another. Nor are the Lasombra kings, for they need no formality of title or position, and they certainly accept no restraints on their power in the form of any human or divine sanction. The Lasombra simply are the rightful masters of everything in heaven or earth, whether their subjects accept the fact yet or not.
— Old World of Darkness Vampire: The Masquerade - Clanbook: Lasombra (Revised)
The Kings are, by all appearances, an extremely successful, tight-knit family. They're not Black Spiral Kinfolk; indeed, most are rather attractive in a bland, Middle-American sort of way. They've got money, authority, political power and free beer whenever they want it. Why throw in with Pentex?
The answer is simple: Arrogance. The Kings look around and see everything the way they want it to be... within limits. Outside those limits, things aren't so rosy. The Kings can't do anything about Anheuser-Busch, though they'd love to, and that boils their blood. They're the Kings, dammit, and the fact that the world stubbornly refused to conform to their wishes is a continuing canker in their happiness. Throwing their lot with Pentex ensures that if the program for domination succeeds, the Kings get the last laugh on their rivals. And once the liquor industry is under their thumb, what's to keep them from expanding their horizons?
The answer is simple: Arrogance. The Kings look around and see everything the way they want it to be... within limits. Outside those limits, things aren't so rosy. The Kings can't do anything about Anheuser-Busch, though they'd love to, and that boils their blood. They're the Kings, dammit, and the fact that the world stubbornly refused to conform to their wishes is a continuing canker in their happiness. Throwing their lot with Pentex ensures that if the program for domination succeeds, the Kings get the last laugh on their rivals. And once the liquor industry is under their thumb, what's to keep them from expanding their horizons?
— Old World of Darkness Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Subsidiaries: A Guide To Pentex
The unconditional compassion that was once the Elves' defining trait has long since been extinguished, replaced by a belief in their own preeminence that knows no denial.
This arrogance has manifested differently amongst the Elven races: it has remade the Dark Elves as selfish despoilers of a world they see fit only for their pleasure. The High Elves it has made stubborn and conceited, the self-appointed protectors of a realm whose fate lies far beyond their control. Only the Wood Elves reject the lure of bending other lands to their will, for in them, the influence of Chaos has awakened only distrust and isolationism.
This arrogance has manifested differently amongst the Elven races: it has remade the Dark Elves as selfish despoilers of a world they see fit only for their pleasure. The High Elves it has made stubborn and conceited, the self-appointed protectors of a realm whose fate lies far beyond their control. Only the Wood Elves reject the lure of bending other lands to their will, for in them, the influence of Chaos has awakened only distrust and isolationism.
— Warhammer: Wood Elves Army Book (8th edition)
"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 40,000
Theater
"I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite 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?"
— Pooh-Bah, The Mikado
Video Games
"Look at how gorgeous I am!" says the Bat.
"I'm so proud of myself!" says the Bat in the Spats.
And it's true that his clothes are the finest in Hey Deze,
He's the envy of gentlemen, scourge of the ladies,
So please be aware, and I beg you, take note:
If you mock his ensemble, he'll rip out your throat.
"I'm so proud of myself!" says the Bat in the Spats.
And it's true that his clothes are the finest in Hey Deze,
He's the envy of gentlemen, scourge of the ladies,
So please be aware, and I beg you, take note:
If you mock his ensemble, he'll rip out your throat.
—Kingdom of Loathing, intro text before fighting the Bat in the Spats
Superman: What are you thinking, Adam?
Black Adam: That magic is your weakness.
Superman: And arrogance is yours.
Black Adam: That magic is your weakness.
Superman: And arrogance is yours.
Nightwolf: Arrogance like yours felled the Matoka.
Kung Lao: What's wrong with a healthy confidence?
Nightwolf: Unchecked, it becomes a cancer.
Kung Lao: What's wrong with a healthy confidence?
Nightwolf: Unchecked, it becomes a cancer.
"I was going to teach you a lesson, but instead, it is you who have taught me. You see, when I was young... I was EMPEROR. The realm you see all around you was mine to command. I conquered my doubts, my fears, my anger... I buried all of it within the land. But I held on to one vice. The one sha I never conquered. PRIDE. My pride cloaked this land in mists! I thought we were better than the rest of the world. I thought we could solve our own problems. But for ten thousand years, we stagnated, our doubts and fears buried in the land, rising up to fester whenever we allowed them. Pride. It is the most insidious of sha. It is good until it is bad. And then it is more dangerous than all the others combined. Beware of Pride! Be humble! The world is plunging into chaos. Old enemies must work together. Proud races must admit they need help. Things are going to get worse before they get better. Only by working together can we overcome the darkness. All that stands in our way... is pride."
"Why am I never proud of you? Don't take it personally, boy. I'm never proud of anything. Pride is perhaps our family's worst trait. See how many mortals are here with us because of it?"
— Pride, Hades
Web Animation
"You know how a bunch of ancient Greek myths make a real big deal out of hubris? When some ancient hero gets too full of himself, thinking he's invincible, and only realizes that he's not invincible, when he's already been impaled and/or disintegrated? Well, Athenian history is a grade-a example of how hubris can make and break you, so let's get into it."
Webcomics
"Clearly I lack arrogance, as that would be a flaw."
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"You want humility? I'll show you humility on a scale you can scarcely comprehend. Let this sheet bellow unto the heavens themselves that Red Mage is the most humble man to walk upon Earth! EVER!"
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"You want humility? I'll show you humility on a scale you can scarcely comprehend. Let this sheet bellow unto the heavens themselves that Red Mage is the most humble man to walk upon Earth! EVER!"
— Red Mage Statscowski, 8-Bit Theater
"It's a sin you should be proud of damnit!!!"
— Aaryanna, Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures
Western Animation
Zuko: I don't feel any shame at all! I'm as proud as ever!
Iroh: Prince Zuko, pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.
Iroh: Prince Zuko, pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.
Real Life
"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."
"There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people, except Christians, ever imagine that they are guilty themselves. ... There is no fault which makes a man more unpopular, and no fault which we are more unconscious of in ourselves. And the more we have it ourselves, the more we dislike it in others."
— C. S. Lewis, "The Great Sin," Mere Christianity
"Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot."
"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
"For you can have no greater sign of a more confirmed pride, than when you think that you are humble enough."
— William Law
Question: How many bosses does it take to change a light bulb?
Answer: One. He holds the light bulb and the universe revolves around him to screw it in.
Answer: One. He holds the light bulb and the universe revolves around him to screw it in.
