Quotes on Vanity And Pride

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.