Characteristics Quote by Benjamin Franklin

I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed.

— Benjamin Franklin

“Indeed, I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," &c., but some vain thing immediately followed.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“Vanity is an expressionless stylistic device.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

“And, lastly (I may as well confess it, since my denial of it will be believed by nobody), perhaps I shall a good deal…

— Benjamin Franklin

“When not prompted by vanity, we say little.”

— La Rochefoucauld

“it is often nothing but our own vanity that decieves us”

— Jane Austen

“Vanity is of no value”

— Anonymous

There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.

— Michel de Montaigne

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

And not a vanity is given in vain.

— Alexander Pope

Is there any vanity greater than the vanity of those who believe themselves without it?

— Carolyn Heilbrun

“vanity, vanity, all is vanity”

— Ecclesiastes 7:5