Grows Quote by Michael Ayrton

Pride is a wound and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open that wound again and again.…

— Michael Ayrton

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

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

— Jonathan Swift

Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to…

— Helen Hunt Jackson

Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to…

— Helen Hunt Jackson

Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more…

— Jane Austen

Pride is a fault that great men blush not to own: it is the ennobled offspring of self-love; though, it must be confessed, grave…

— Joanna Baillie