Famous quotes containing the words pride and/or vanity:
“All day long and all night through,
One thing only must I do:
Quench my pride and cool my blood,
Lest I perish in the flood.”
—Countee Cullen (1903–1946)
“I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)