“ Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasions to change. ”
- Frank Lloyd Wright- Copy
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“ It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all. ”
- Heinrich Heine- Copy
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“ I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail our pride supports us; when we succeed, it betrays us. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
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“ Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion that their daily birth From all the fuming vanities of earth. ”
- William Wordsworth- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Vanitas vanitatum" has rung in the earsOf gentle and simple for thousands of years;The wail still is heard, yet its notes never scareEither simple or gentle from Vanity Fair. ”
- Frederick Locker Lampson- Copy
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“ Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity — So it be new, there's no respect how vile — That is not quickly buzzed into his ears? ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 684
“ Pride in their port, defiance in their eye I see the Lords of human kind pass by. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
- 2.1K
“ He that is proud eats up himself; pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. ”
- Kahlil Gibran- Copy
- 246
“ If wild my breast and sore my pride, I bask in dreams of suicide, If cool my heart and high my head I think "How lucky are the dead. ”
- Dorothy Parker- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood — we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we. ”
- Jean Rostand- Copy
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“ Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration. ”
- De Witt Clinton- Copy
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“ There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
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“ Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one. ”
- Louisa May Alcott- Copy
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“ Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
- 152
“ Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down. ”
- Toni Morrison- Copy
- 1K
“ It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness. ”
- Edith Wharton- Copy
- 359
“ The great corrupter of public man is the ego....Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem. ”
- Dean Acheson- Copy
- 2.6K
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