The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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What demon is our god? What name subsumes
That act external to our sleeping selves?
Not pleasure it is much too broad and narrow ,
Not sex, not for the moment love, but pride,
And not in prowess, but pride undefined,
Autonomous in its unthought demands,
A bit of vanity, but mostly pride.J. V. Cunningham
Pride is an established conviction of ones own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction in others, and it is generally accompanied by the secret hope of ultimately coming to the same conviction oneself. 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
The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick or a self-destroying or even murderous obsession. Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.
Iris Murdoch
The English language was created by poets, a five-hundred year enterprise of emotion and metaphor, the richest dialogue in world literature. French rhetorical models are too narrow for the English tradition. Most pernicious of French imports is the notion that there is no person behind a text. Is there anything more affected, aggressive, and relentlessly concrete than a Parisian intellectual behind his/her turgid text? The Parisian is a provincial when he pretends to speak for the universe.
Camille Paglia
The antipathy of the English settlers to the Indians was far too great to lead to the sort of miscegenation which was encouraged by the French In the British colonies the half-breed was looked upon as an Indian It was not until within the lifetime of those now living that an infusion of Indian blood became a subject of pride unless one makes exception for such isolated tales as the somewhat grotesque Pocahontas tradition in Virginia.
Madison Grant
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