Famous quotes containing the words pride and/or vanity:
“Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although pride has a thousand ways of transforming itself it is never so well disguised and able to take people in as when masquerading as humility.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“Marriage is the operation by which a woman’s vanity and a man’s egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.”
—Helen Rowland (1875–1950)