To write well and speak well is mere vanity if one does…

After all, what does fame everlasting mean? Mere vanity.

— Marcus Aurelius

“To speak of "mere words" is much like speaking of "mere dynamite.”

— C.J. Ducasse

We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

No; for instead of delivering myself up to the full enjoyment of the as others do, I am always troubling my head about how…

— Anne Bronte

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Humility counts for much, but it may be that vanity does not dispossess that admirable quality.

— Walter J. Phillips

Vanity does not refer to the opinion a man entertains of himself, but to that which he wishes others to entertain of him.

— William Hazlitt

If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If vanity does not overthrow all our virtues, at least she makes them totter

— François De La Rochefoucauld

There is nothing which vanity does not desecrate.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Not all writing is political or revolutionary, but the very act of giving yourself permission to write, to speak, to share the truth no…

— Dinty W. Moore

“I'm a writer to the bone. I love this language you and I read, write and speak. It's called English. And I'm seriously doubting…

— Ann Medlock

“If I went back to college again, I'd concentrate on two areas learning to write and to speak before an audience. Nothing in life…

— Gerald R. Ford

I had - there were three strokes, and I lost my ability to read and write and speak, and it really put me by…

— Ntozake Shange

“If you love someone, if someone loved you, if they taught you to write and made it so you could speak, how can you…

— Ally Condie, Crossed