Famous quotes containing the words pride and/or vanity:
“It was modesty that invented the word “philosopher” in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneself wise to the actors of the spirit—the modesty of such monsters of pride and sovereignty as Pythagoras, as Plato.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“It is well for our vanity that we slay the criminal, for if we suffered him to live he might show us what we had gained by his crime.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)