Joanna Baillie Quotes
Pride is a fault that great men blush not to own: it is the ennobled offspring of self-love; though, it must be confessed, grave and pompous vanity, Iike a fat plebeian in a rove of office, does very often assume its name.
Baillie, Joanna. A Series of Plays: In which it is Attempted to Delineate the Stronger Passions of the Mind. Vol. 1, T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1798, p. 57. (Introductory Discourse).
Joanna Baillie was a Scottish poet and dramatist, known for such works as Plays on the Passions (three volumes, 1798–1812) and Fugitive Verses (1840). She shows her interest in moral philosophy and the Gothic. She was critically acclaimed in her lifetime, and while living in Hampstead, associated with literary contemporaries such as Anna Barbauld, Lucy Aikin, and Walter Scott. She died at the age of 88.
