Their Vanity Quotes
13 quotes by 11 authors
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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…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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The huge egos of great chess players are legendary. Psychologists have been amazed by their vanity, have studied it, and anecdotes concerning it are abundant.…
— Israel Albert Horowitz
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Some men mistake generosity for charity: these flatter themselves that they are giving gratuitously, whilst they are merely rewarding secret services offered their vanity.
— Norm MacDonald
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Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious to be accepted…
— Stephen Spender
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Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value. Those who impart them to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue, and religion, know…
— Charles Simmons
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In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat.
— David Hewson
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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respect—you don't call a man…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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We know of no spectacle more ridiculous—or more contemptible—than that of the religious reactionaries who dare to re-write the history of our republic. Or who…
— Christopher Hitchens
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If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity cannot be satisfied…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Mundus vult decipi'—the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence is largely shaped…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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These courtiers of applause deny themselves things convenient to flaunt it out; being frequently enough vain to immolate their own desires to their vanity.
— Robert Boyle
Who Wrote These Their Vanity Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 13 Their Vanity Quotes as follows: