"Amour propre" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... settled, for I spoke nothing but English—very little knowledge of the world teaching me that when we have any favour, however slight, to ask, it is always good policy to make the amende by gratifying the amour propre of the granter—if, happily, there be an ...
— The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete • Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
... own domain, still overwhelmed, with the shock of the revelations and the gossip of which he never had dreamed, he felt himself wounded to the quick in all those sentiments upon which his 'amour propre' had been ...
— Zibeline, Complete • Phillipe de Massa |
