Vanity And Pride Quotes

Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

Vanity is a relative of Pride; Vanity is talkative, pride is silent. When Vanity and Pride get together, they could make monstrosities.

Vanity, not love, has been my folly.

Whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.

Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

I hate the countrie's dirt and manners, yet I love the silence; I embrace the wit; A courtship, flowing here in full tide. But loathe the expense, the vanity and pride. No place each way is happy.

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

I manage because I have to. Because I've no other way out. Because I've overcome the vanity and pride of being different, I've understood that they are a pitiful defense against being different. Because I've understood that the sun shines differently when something changes. The sun shines differently, but it will continue to shine, and jumping at it with a hoe isn't going to do anything.

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!

Pride... is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or the other, real or imaginary. Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

Mingled vanity and pride appear in this, that when miserable men do seek after God, instead of ascending higher than themselves as they ought to do, they measure him by their own carnal stupidity, and neglecting solid inquiry, fly off to indulge their curiosity in vain speculation.

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.