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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… — Charles Caleb Colton
- The huge egos of great chess players are legendary. Psychologists have been amazed by their vanity, have studied it, and anecdotes concerning… — Israel Albert Horowitz
- Some men mistake generosity for charity: these flatter themselves that they are giving gratuitously, whilst they are merely rewarding secret services offered… — Norm MacDonald
- Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious… — Stephen Spender
- Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value. Those who impart them to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue,… — Charles Simmons
- In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat. — David Hewson
- Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. — Charles Caleb Colton
- Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respect—you don't… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 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… — Christopher Hitchens
- If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
- For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity… — Arthur Schopenhauer
- Mundus vult decipi'—the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence… — Abraham Joshua Heschel