"I'm a proud person. I'm not vain...." - Quote by Dolly Parton

“I try to see the good in everybody, and I don't care who people are as long as they're themselves, whatever that is.”

“I figure if I keep my health, I have no intention of retiring. I love to work. I want to be like Bob Hope.”

“When you come from where I come from, if anyone in the family makes it out, the others kind of come with you.”

“A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.”

“Covering discretion with a coat of folly.”

“The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.”

“I am one of the proudest men ever born, but let me tell you frankly, it is not for myself, but on account of my ancestry. The more I have studied the past, the more I have looked back, more and more has this pride come to me, and it has given me the strength and courage of conviction, raised me up from the dust of the earth, and set me working out that great plan laid out by those great ancestors of ours.”

“Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.”

“Some glory in their birth , some in their skill , Some in their wealth , some in their bodies' force , Some in their garments, though new-fangled ill; Some in their hawks and hounds , some in their horse ; And every humor hath his adjunct pleasure , Wherein it finds a joy above the rest .”