Shakespeare quotes on pride

So is the time that keeps you as my chest Or as the wardrobe which the robe doth hide, To make some special instant special-blest, By new unfolding his imprisoned pride
Source: THE SONNETS

Your shallowest help will hold me up afloat,

It is a pretty youth- not very pretty; But, sure, he's proud; and yet his pride becomes him
Source: AS YOU LIKE IT

First, her bedchamber, Where I confess I slept not, but profess Had that was well worth watching-it was hang'd With tapestry of silk and silver; the story, Proud Cleopatra when she met her Roman And Cydnus swell'd above the banks, or for The press of boats or pride
Source: CYMBELINE

No, prelate; such is thy audacious wickedness, Thy lewd, pestiferous, and dissentious pranks, As very infants prattle of thy pride
Source: THE FIRST PART OF HENRY THE SIXTH

PUCELLE, that witch, that damned sorceress, Hath wrought this hellish mischief unawares, That hardly we escap'd the pride of France
Source: THE FIRST PART OF HENRY THE SIXTH

Then leaden age, Quicken'd with youthful spleen and warlike rage, Beat down Alencon, Orleans, Burgundy, And from the pride of Gallia rescued thee
Source: THE FIRST PART OF HENRY THE SIXTH

If thou wilt fight, fight by thy father's side; And, commendable prov'd, let's die in pride
Source: THE FIRST PART OF HENRY THE SIXTH

When he perceiv'd me shrink and on my knee, His bloody sword he brandish'd over me, And like a hungry lion did commence Rough deeds of rage and stern impatience; But when my angry guardant stood alone, Tend'ring my ruin and assail'd of none, Dizzy-ey'd fury and great rage of heart Suddenly made him from my side to start Into the clust'ring battle of the French; And in that sea of blood my boy did drench His overmounting spirit; and there died, My Icarus, my blossom, in his pride
Source: THE FIRST PART OF HENRY THE SIXTH

Thus droops this lofty pine and

Y'are meek and humble-mouth'd; You sign your place and calling, in full seeming, With meekness and humility; but your heart Is cramm'd with arrogancy, spleen, and pride
Source: KING HENRY THE EIGHTH

I lov'd her most, and thought to set my rest On her kind nursery.- Hence and avoid my sight!- So be my grave my peace as here I give Her father's heart from her! Call France! Who stirs? Call Burgundy! Cornwall and Albany, With my two daughters' dowers digest this third; Let pride, which she calls plainness, marry her
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF KING LEAR

But now the blood of twenty thousand men Did triumph in my face, and they are fled; And, till so much blood thither come again, Have I not reason to look pale and dead? All souls that will be safe, fly from my side; For time hath set a blot upon my pride
Source: KING RICHARD THE SECOND

how these vain weak nails May tear a passage through the flinty ribs Of this hard world, my ragged prison walls; And, for they cannot, die in their own pride
Source: KING RICHARD THE SECOND

The grand conspirator, Abbot of Westminster, With clog of conscience and sour melancholy, Hath yielded up his body to the grave; But here is Carlisle living, to abide Thy kingly doom, and sentence of his pride
Source: KING RICHARD THE SECOND

God and good angels fight on Richmond's side; And Richard falls in height of all his pride
Source: KING RICHARD III

Kinsmen, shoot all your shafts into the court; We will afflict the Emperor in his pride
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF TITUS ANDRONICUS

You may call it melancholy, if you will favour the man; but, by my head, 'tis pride
Source: THE HISTORY OF TROILUS AND CRESSIDA

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