Famous quotes containing the words pride and/or vanity:
“It is the highest and most legitimate pride of an Englishman to have the letters M.P. written after his name. No selection from the alphabet, no doctorship, no fellowship, be it of ever so learned or royal a society, no knightship,not though it be of the Garter,confers so fair an honour.”
—Anthony Trollope (18151882)
“If vanity does not quite overturn our virtues, yet at least it makes them all totter.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (16131680)