Pride Similes. Frank J. Wilstach, comp. 1916. A Dictionary of Similes

Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Pride


’Tis as natural for women to pride themselves in fine clothes as ’tis for a peacock to spread his tail. —Anonymous	1
Pride is like the beautiful acacia, that lifts its head proudly above its neighbor plants—forgetting that it too, like them, has its roots in the dirt. —C. N. Bovée	2
Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object,—self,—self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels. —C. C. Colton	3
Pride, like ambition, is sometimes virtuous and sometimes vicious, according to the character in which it is found, and the object to which it is directed. —Fulke Greville	4
Pride is like vapour which ascendeth high, and presently vanishes away. —Plutarch	5
Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large, quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others. —Frederick Saunders	6
Earthly pride is like the passing flower, that springs to fall, and blossoms to die. —Henry Kirke White	7
Pride, like anger, builds among the stars; but pleasure, lark like, nests upon the ground. —Edward Young	8