Vanity Quotes - Page 17

• Love is that enviable state that knows no envy or vanity, only empathy and a longing to be greater than oneself.

  Joe McMahon

  Love You, Love Is, Envy

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• Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Brave, Shame

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• When we come to judge others it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we have formed of ourselves from which we have left out everything that offends our vanity or would discredit us in the eyes of the world.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Eye, Judging, Criticism

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.

  Baron d'Holbach

  Men, Superstitions, Infancy

  "The System of Nature". Vol. 1, chap. IX. Book by Baron d'Holbach, translated by Samuel Wilkinson, 1770.

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• Flattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Coins, Flattery, Currents

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• Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Life, Believe, Men

  W. Somerset Maugham (2010). “The Summing Up”, p.291, Random House

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• They who prosper take on airs of vanity.

  Aeschylus

  Air

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1958). “The Complete Greek Tragedies: Aeschylus”

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• We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.

  George Santayana

  Support, Forgiving, Spheres

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.84, 谷月社

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• Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with what it can do, hence accustomed not to feel small stings.

  Jacques Barzun

  Pride, Static, Satisfied

  Jacques Barzun (1959). “The House of Intellect”

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• One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fear, Average, Action

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.54, Courier Corporation

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• It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Glasses, Glory

  William Shakespeare, Nikolaus Delius (1855). “Shakspere's Werke: Romeo and Juliet. Cymbeline. Troilus and Cressida. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra”

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• We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any other person's.

  William Hazlitt

  Merit, Opinion, Consciousness

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1466, Delphi Classics

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• Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Desire, Should, Hardest

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.279, Modern Library

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• A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry.

  William Hazlitt

  Choices, Idolatry, Objects

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1871, Delphi Classics

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• Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Sacrifice, Men, Purses

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense of Life”, p.52, Courier Corporation

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• Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with their own great themes.

  Max Beerbohm

  Men, Theme, Small Talk

  Sir Max Beerbohm (1958). “Mainly on the Air”

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• People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  People, Malice

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• What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  People, Insufferable, Wounds

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• Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something that had much better be concealed; namely, that their vanity has survived themselves.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Funeral, World, Pompous

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.233

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• Ambition is only vanity ennobled.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Ambition

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.44, Jerome K. Jerome

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• The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Helping, Virtue

  Jonathan Swift (1746). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing, I. His Miscellanies in prose. II. His poetical writings. III. The travels of Capt. Lemuel Gulliver. IV. Papers relating to Ireland, and The Drapier's letters. V. The conduct of the allies, and The examiners. VI. The publick spirit of the Whiggs, &c. with Polite conversation. VII. Letters to and from Dr. Swift. VIII. Directions to servants, sermons, poems, &c”, p.316

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• Humility, never me; it is a characteristic I expect to find in other people.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Humility, People, Characteristics

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• Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a sweet-cake to their self-love.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Sweet, Men, Self

  Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.342

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• The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.

  Albert Camus

  Love, Selfish, Generosity

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.65, Vintage

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• Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Fashion, Literature, Taste

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