Vain Man Quotes
9 quotes by 8 authors
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Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control…
— Lord Byron
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In going on with these Experiments, how many pretty systems do we build, which we soon find ourselves oblig'd to destroy! If there is no…
— Benjamin Franklin
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A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
— William Hazlitt
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To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.
— William Penn
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It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a…
— Baruch Spinoza
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One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washèd it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand,…
— Edmund Spenser
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1 - 2 - 3 To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's. William Penn To be like…
— William Penn
Who Wrote These Vain Man Quotes
8 authors contributed a total of 9 Vain Man Quotes as follows: