Vanity And Pride Quotes:

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

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edward Capell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.308

topic: Pride, Deeds, Vanity And Pride

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Pride, Vanity, Dine, Vanity And Pride

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.

- Jane Austen

topic: Pride, Thinking, Vanity, Pride And Prejudice Pride, Mrs Bennet

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

- Samuel Butler

source: Samuel Butler (1827). “The genuine poetical remains of Samuel Butler, with notes by R. Thyer. With a selection from the author's Characters in prose”, p.225

topic: Ignorance, Character, Pride, Ignorance Is Bliss, Pride And Arrogance

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.

- Jane Austen

source: "Pride and Prejudice". Book by Jane Austen, January 28, 1813.

topic: Real, Believe, Pride, Vanity And Pride

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

- William Shakespeare

source: 1602 Agamemnon.Troilus and Cressida, act 2, sc.3, l.153-5.

topic: Pride, Glasses, Proud, Proud Of Him, Vanity And Pride

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

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Pride, Vanity, Wish, Vanity And Pride

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Pride, Vanity, Hardest, Vanity And Pride

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

- Jonathan Swift

source: Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols (1808). “Works”, p.443

topic: Humility, Pride, Vanity, Vanity And Pride

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

- Charles Caleb Colton

source: Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.454

topic: Fashion, Pride, Vanity, Vanity And Pride

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

- Joanna Baillie

source: Joanna Baillie (1853). “The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie”, p.112

topic: Pride, Vanity, Pampered, Vanity And Pride

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

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. [141]

topic: Pride, Haughtiness, World, Vanity And Pride

Vanity, not love, has been my folly.

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (1819). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel”, p.166

topic: Vanity, Pride And Prejudice Book, Folly, Vanity And Pride

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

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.50

topic: Real, Pride, Vanity, Vanity And Pride, Darcy

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

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.150, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

topic: Vanity, Affection, Blind, Pride And Prejudice Book, Vanity And Pride

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

- Samael Aun Weor

topic: Pride, Vanity, Together, Talkative, Vanity And Pride

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

- Baron de Montesquieu

source: Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.388, Library of Alexandria

topic: Pride, Vanity, Government, Vanity And 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.

- Andrzej Sapkowski

topic: Pride, Vanity, Jumping, Vanity And Pride

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.

- John Calvin

source: John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.24, Lulu.com

topic: Pride, Men, Vanity, Ascending, Vanity And Pride

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.

- William Habington

topic: Country, Hate, Pride, Country Life, Vanity And Pride