Samuel Richardson Quotes about Pride

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.

Pride, Action, Dishonorable

Samuel Richardson (1793). “The History of Clarissa Harlowe: In a Series of Letters”, p.382

Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.

Spiritual, Pride, Arrogant

Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.73

Tis certain that Morality is an indispensable Requisite of true Religion, and there can be none without it. But it would become the Pride and Ignorance of Pagans only, to magnify it, as the Whole of what is necessary.

Samuel Richardson

Ignorance, Pride, Religion

Though a censure lies against those who are poor and proud, yet is Pride sooner to be forgiven in a poor person than in a rich one; since in the latter it is insult and arrogance; in the former, it may be a defense against temptations to dishonesty; and, if manifested on proper occasions, may indicate a natural bravery of mind, which the frowns of fortune cannot depress.

Samuel Richardson

Depressing, Lying, Pride

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

Samuel Richardson

Pride, Men, Self

Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.13

Samuel Richardson Quotes about Pride

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