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
Staggering Vanity And Pride quotations
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
When dealing with people, let us remember that we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity. ...Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.
Satan is attacking the great institutions of America, using those great vices of pride, vanity, and sensuality as the root to attack all of the strong plants that has so deeply rooted in the American tradition.
Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
The grand obstacle to the salvation of the scribes and Pharisees was their pride, vanity and self-love. They lived on each other's praise. If they had acknowledged Christ as the only good teacher, they must have given up the good opinion of the multitude; and they chose rather to lose their souls than to forfeit their reputation among men!
It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.
Pride is a wound and vanity is the scab on it.
One's life picks at the scab to open that wound again and again. Among men it seldom heals and often grows septic.
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.
Cast out pride and vanity; have no thought of trying to rule over others or of outdoing them.
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
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.
Live according to the ethics of excellence, and you can always stand proud.
Pride - not vanity, but dignity and self-respect - should carry a lot of weight in helping you make decisions. Let pride help you decide.
Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.
It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.
Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should.
The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.
Love of power more frequently originates in vanity than pride (two qualities, by the way, which are often confounded) and is, consequently, yet more peculiarly the sin of little than of great minds.
Whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.
One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.
Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with what it can do, hence accustomed not to feel small stings.
One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.
He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.
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.
Vanity, not love, has been my folly.
Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind.
But vanity, not love, has been my folly.
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.
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.
Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.
Pride is a fault that great men blush not to own: it is the ennobled offspring of self-love; though, it must be confessed, grave and pompous vanity, Iike a fat plebeian in a rove of office, does very often assume its name.
I would much rather fight pride than vanity, because pride has a stand-up way of fighting. You know where it is. It throws its black shadow on you, and you are not at a loss where to strike. But vanity is that delusive, that insectiferous, that multiplied feeling, and men that fight vanities are like men that fight midges and butterflies. It is easier to chase them than to hit them.
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.
Music is made one of Satan's most attractive agencies to ensnare souls;
but, when turned to a good account, it is a blessing. When abused, it leads the unconsecrated to pride, vanity, and folly.
Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity.