Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty. (George Eliot)

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

George Eliot

Related topics

pride vanity

Related quotes

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity. View quote
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride. View quote
Joanna Baillie
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride. View quote
Jonathan Swift