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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance. -- Samuel Butler
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous. -- Baron de Montesquieu
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
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
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
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
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
Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt. -- Benjamin Franklin
Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible. -- Richard Steele
The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny -- Mark Twain
The offspring of riches Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny -- Mark Twain
Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride. -- Joanna Baillie
Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride. -- Jonathan Swift
The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Pride and vanity have built more hospitals than all the virtues together, -- Bernard de Mandeville
Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity? -- Bantu Holomisa
Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship. -- Franz Grillparzer
Cast out pride and vanity; have no thought of trying to rule over others or of outdoing them. -- Wallace D. Wattles
Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty. -- George Eliot
....to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree. -- Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
What's so wrong with vanity? It's different from narcissism, you know? It's not about admiring yourself-it's about taking pride in your appearance. -- Tom Ford
Pride and vanity, the opposites of humility, can destroy our spiritual health as surely as a debilitating disease can destroy our physical health. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
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
People don't do theology in a vacuum but in a community with other theological thinkers, where there's jealousy, vanity, hurt pride, all those things. -- Frederica Mathewes-Green
There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity, arrogance and pride. -- Pope Francis
Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair. -- Alexandre Dumas-fils
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity. -- Dale Carnegie
Nobody sets out to make a bad film, but so many of those compromises are made and often they're made because of vanity, pride and ego. -- Rick McCallum
Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last. -- Helen Hunt Jackson
Vanity, wounded pride, rejection, self-delusion. I could recite a litany of little pinpricks that finally produce a gaping wound. That's how marriages and friendships come apart. -- Helen Van Slyke
The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession. -- Iris Murdoch
... many a heart is caught in the rebound ... Pride may be soothed by the ready devotion of another; vanity may be excited the more keenly by recent mortification. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
It's the ones who can't let go - of fear or anger, lust or greed, vanity or pride or power - who are most at risk of becoming corrupted. -- Kate Elliott
The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong He plummets to the dust of hope. -- Sophocles
Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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