vainglories

Updated: May 25, 2025

The verdict showed the new ideal of kingship which had grown up during Henry's reign, and which made itself deeply felt over the whole land when in the days of his successor the duties of righteous government were thrown aside for the vainglories of religious chivalry. But the patriarch heard the answer with bitter disappointment, and was not appeased by promises of money and forces for the war.

Mrs. J. R. Green - Henry the Second

The imaginative man is sensitive, and merciful to others, out of the merest mercy to himself. In literature, as in social life, the attractiveness of egotism depends entirely upon the egotist. If he be a conceited man, full of self-admirations and vainglories, his egotism will disgust and repel.

Alexander Smith - Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country