His Vanity Quotes

16 quotes by 13 authors

Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe. — W. Somerset Maugham
Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity. — Miguel de Unamuno
Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant,… — Samuel Johnson
Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being… — Benjamin Franklin
Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently… — Florence Nightingale
The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness. — David Remnick
Without vanity a writer's work is tepid, and he must accept his vanity as part of his stock in trade and live with it as… — Moss Hart
God got the power, man has got his vanity. Man gotta choose before God can set him free. — Bob Dylan
Every noble action is selfish. Some selfish actions are nobler than others. But they are all selfish. And as such there can be no action… — Kedar Joshi
God is the only evil. His vanity made him the devil. — Kedar Joshi
A fundamental condition of Being is slavery. Man is the slave of God, and God that of His vanity. — Kedar Joshi
Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul. — Fernando Pessoa
Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like… — Leon Trotsky
Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put… — Oscar Wilde

Who Wrote These His Vanity Quotes

13 authors contributed a total of 16 His Vanity Quotes as follows: