Helen Hunt Jackson Quotes about Pride

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There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.

There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.

Pride, Defense, Skillful

Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last; and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another, never admitting that there is a shade less honor in the second field than in the first, or in the third than in the second.

Helen Hunt Jackson

Hurt, Pride, Vanity

Helen Hunt Jackson (2010). “Ramona”, p.150, Modern Library