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Vanity Quotes by Gustave Flaubert
- I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner…
- He had the vanity to believe men did not like him – while men simply did not know him.
- There was an air of indifference about them, a calm produced by the gratification of every passion; and through their manners were suave, one could…
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
- 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
- The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or… — Iris Murdoch
- Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld