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Vanity Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
- 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…
- I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed.
- Mine is better than ours.
- A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he holds…
More Vanity Quotes
- In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that… — Agnes Repplier
- They who prosper take on airs of vanity. — Aeschylus
- What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride… — Jane Austen
- The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity… — Napoleon Bonaparte
- The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity. — Thomas Carlyle
- The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to… — Benjamin Peirce
- Humility counts for much, but it may be that vanity does not dispossess that admirable quality. — Walter J. Phillips