Opinion Quote by Jane Austen

Pride is an established conviction of one's own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps be termed…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Vanity is a relative of Pride; Vanity is talkative, pride is silent. When Vanity and Pride get together, they could make monstrosities.

— Samael Aun Weor

Pride... is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed;…

— Jane Austen

“A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think…

— Jane Austen

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

— Jonathan Swift

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

— Jane Austen

Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with…

— Jacques Barzun

“Pride," observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, "is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have…

— Jane Austen

Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn, can…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson