Vanity Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Flattery is false coin that is only current thanks to our vanity.

— François De La Rochefoucauld

We speak little if not egged on by vanity.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Generosity is the vanity of giving.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is our own vanity that makes the vanity of others intolerable to us

— François De La Rochefoucauld

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The desire to be thought clever often prevents a man from becoming so.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The judgments our enemies make about us come nearer to the truth than those we make about ourselves.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The exceeding delight we take in talking about ourselves should give us cause to fear that we are giving but very little…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When we enlarge upon the affection our friends have for us, this is very often not so much out of a sense…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The courage of a great many men, and the virtue of a great many women, are the effect of vanity, shame, and…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Clemency, which we make a virtue of, proceeds sometimes from vanity, sometimes from indolence, often from fear, and almost always from a…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Some men are so full of themselves that when they fall in love, they amuse themselves rather with their own passion than…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— François De La Rochefoucauld

That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We often brag that we are never bored with ourselves, and are so vain as never to think ourselves bad company.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The most effectual way to be deceived is to believe oneself more cunning than one's neighbors.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What makes the vanity of others insupportable is that it wounds our own

— François De La Rochefoucauld

Virtue would not go to such lengths if vanity did not keep her company

— François De La Rochefoucauld

The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld