pride

• This pride was at once his strength and his weakness And if I permit myself to be blackmailed--there is no use in mincing words--if I give you this contract in exchange for my wife's good name are you willing to consider every obligation wiped out Her eyes flashed their triumph at this quick collapse of his stand I am And, furthermore, will you agree to discontinue your visits to my house Why?" —  The Lady Doc
• For my pride is my life; and well had it become me, if you had remained what once you were LADY INGER. —  Henrik Ibsen's Prose Dramas Vol III Lady Inger of Ostrat
• You may touch his pocket;--or his pride, what he calls his pride, a damnable devilish inhuman vanity; or his name,--that bugbear of a title by which he trusts to cover his baseness; or his skin, for he is a coward. —  An Eye for an Eye
• For his pride is your delight, and he, unlike too many more famous Tuscans, has not forgotten the past. —  Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition
• My vanity would be greater if I had not been placed so near you; and yet my pride is our relationship. —  Famous Americans of Recent Times

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