Joseph Hall Quotes

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.

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

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.

My ego is sated.

The more people that praise you, the more there is danger to develop arrogance.

People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.

Beware of being blinded by your own success.

There is a danger in believing your own hype.

Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.

Why was it that pride and foolishness were so often close companions?

Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it.

The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.

Pride is over-estimation of oneself by reason of self-love.

A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing.

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself

Vanity is a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs, and chuck us over; but pride is a fine horse, that will carry us over the ground, and enable us to distance our fellow-travelers.

Conceit is thinking you're great; egotism is knowing it.

If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.

men are so conceited they’ll believe anything that flatters them

Ain't nothing too discreet about the disease of conceit.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.