“Whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
Vanity And Pride Quotes
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Vanity And Pride Quotes
“Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.”
Source: The Spirit of Laws
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.”
“Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.”
“Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.”
Source: Works
“He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.”
Source: Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“Vanity, not love, has been my folly.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice: A Novel
“The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.”
Source: The genuine poetical remains of Samuel Butler, with notes by R. Thyer. With a selection from the author's Characters in prose
“Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.”
Source: Benjamin Franklin's the Way to Wealth
“Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
Source: Institutes of the Christian Religion
“Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.”
Source: The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie