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Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
Charles Dickens1812–1870Oliver Twist (1838), Chapter XXXVIIIn context
- Character
Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts⁠—not to hurt others.
George Eliot1819–1880Middlemarch (1871–1872), Book I: Miss Brooke, Chapter VIIn context
Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of mental make in which one of us differs from another.
George Eliot1819–1880Middlemarch (1871–1872), Book II: Old and Young, Chapter XVIn context
- Character
Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I’d strike the sun if it insulted me.
Herman Melville1819–1891Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter XXXVIIn context
- Anger
Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.
James Joyce1882–1941Dubliners (1914), ArabyIn context
- Anger
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
Jonathan Swift1667–1745Gulliver’s Travels (1726), Part IV: A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms, Chapter VIn context
- War & Peace
The world has held great Heroes,
As history-books have showed;
But never a name to go down to fame
Compared with that of Toad!
Kenneth Grahame1859–1932The Wind in the Willows (1908), Chapter XIn context
- Comedy
‘How clever I am,’ he crowed rapturously, ‘oh, the cleverness of me!’
J. M. Barrie1860–1937Peter Pan (1911), Chapter IIIIn context
- Comedy
You strip from me the laurel and the rose!
Take all! Despite you there is yet one thing
I hold against you all, and when, to-night,
I enter Christ’s fair courts, and, lowly bowed,
Sweep with doffed casque the heavens’ threshold blue,
One thing is left, that, void of stain or smutch,
I bear away despite you.
Edmond Rostand1868–1918Cyrano de Bergerac (1897), Act V: Cyrano’s Gazette, Scene VI, spoken by CyranoIn context
- Honor
There was ease in Casey’s manner as he stepped into his place;
There was pride in Casey’s bearing and a smile lit Casey’s face.
And when, responding to the cheers, he lightly doffed his hat,
No stranger in the crowd could doubt ’twas Casey at the bat.
Ernest Lawrence Thayer1863–1940Casey at the Bat (1888)In context
- Baseball
Crave not mastery in all,
For the mastery that raised thee was thy bane and wrought thy fall.
Sophocles496–406 BCOedipus the King (c. 429 BC), spoken by CreonIn context
- Power
Of insolence is bred
The tyrant; insolence full blown,
With empty riches surfeited,
Scales the precipitous height and grasps the throne.
Then topples o’er and lies in ruin prone;
No foothold on that dizzy steep.
Sophocles496–406 BCOedipus the King (c. 429 BC), spoken by ChorusIn context
- Power
Swelling words of high-flown might
Mightily the gods do smite.
Chastisement for errors past
Wisdom brings to age at last.
Sophocles496–406 BCAntigone (c. 441 BC), spoken by ChorusIn context
- Age
- Wisdom
If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.
Sun Tzu544–496 BCThe Art of War (5th century BC), Chapter IIn context
- War & Peace
Man is the vainest of all creatures that have their being upon earth.
Homer900–800 BCThe Odyssey (8th century BC), Book XVIIIIn context
- Men