Wounded Pride Quotes

Americans are the great Satan, the wounded snake.

Nationalism springs, as often as not, from a wounded or outraged sense of human dignity, the desire for recognition.

I think I could be a perfectly decent cat. I've been around cats long enough to know what the rules of being a cat are. When all else fails, wash. And I think I could master the thing that cats do, where they stalk away pretending they meant to do whatever it was in the first place; showing their wounded dignity.

hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds.

So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart.

That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own.

Women love the last blow as well as the last word, and when they fight for love they are pitiless as a wounded buffalo.

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.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.