Be proud Quote by Wilkie Collins Download Open image “Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.” — Wilkie Collins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Be proud Impelled Vanity Pedantry Pedants Pedants Knowledge Pride Proud Proud Impelled Vanity
All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but, what never… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense. — Julian Casablancas Copy Share Image
Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Superficial knowledge breeds arrogance; true knowledge induces humility. — Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi Copy Share Image
Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't; It's only vanity when you get puffed… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
“There is nothing serious in mortality! Solomon in all his glory was Solomon with the elements of the contemptible lurking in every fold of… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“Let Lady Glyde's maid come in, Louis. Stop! Do her shoes creak?" I was obliged to ask the question. Creaking shoes invariably upset me… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own. — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“I dread the beginning of her new life more than words can tell, but I see some hope for her if she travels -… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“It is quite possible that I may be altogether wrong in this idea. My own impression, however, is, that I am right.” — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
Habits of literary composition are perfectly familiar to me. One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“He has that quiet deference, that look of pleased, attentive interest, in listening to a woman, which, say what we may, we can none… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
At the end of night, before you close your eyes, be content with what you've done and be proud of who you are. — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
Your aunt and uncle will be proud, though, won't they?" said Hermione as they got off the train and joined the crowd thronging toward… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
All of my decisions I made when I was a kid were decisions, would my mother and father be proud of. — Ken Venturi Copy Share Image
We had pathetically simple dreams: to do meaningful work that we could be proud of, to be together, and to be happy. — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
the Republicans love to say that the Democratic Party is ruled by 'special interests.' But when pressed to name these 'special interests,' the usual… — Geraldine Ferraro Copy Share Image
You should never be proud of doing the right thing. You should just do it. — Dean Smith Copy Share Image
I hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I'd done myself. Race pride… — Carroll O'Connor Copy Share Image
What I have most learned from my son is to respect him and to love him unconditionally. I believe that if parents respect their… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
I was a breed of people who aren't capable of doing anything, really. At college I began to get the idea that being macho… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
Any society that doesn't take care of its weaker younger members is not one to be proud of. — Stephanie March Copy Share Image
