Arthur Helps Quotes

Pride is a big thing that gets in the way of a lot of relationships.

Where pride begins, love ceases.

If you are too proud, you don't do business.

There is a bit of arrogance with 'Hollywood' types that doesn't sit well with game developers.

Gentlemen, start your egos.

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.

There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little.

Your vanity and my vanity will never be friends.

The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.

Conceit spoils the finest genius.

The proud are ever most provoked by pride.

Society ... is nothing more than the war of a thousand petty opposed interests, an eternal strife of all the vanities, which, turn in turn wounded and humiliated one by the other, intercross, come into collision, and on the morrow expiate the triumph of the eve in the bitterness of defeat. To live alone, to remain unjostled in this miserable struggle, where for a moment one draws the eyes of the spectators, to be crushed a moment later -- this is what is called being a nonentity, having no existence. Poor humanity!

The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away.

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

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps be termed a too high opinion of ourselves founded on the overrating of certain qualities that we do actually possess; whereas vanity is more easily satisfied, and can extract a feeling of self-complacency from qualifications that are imaginary.

Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.

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

As soon as there was two there was pride.

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain.

The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions.