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Vanity Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant,…
- Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without very accurate inquiry…
- There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own…
- That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments....
- Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very lightly uttered, and…
- A coxcomb is ugly all over with the effectation of a fine gentleman.
- Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has neither inclination nor…
- The faults of a man loved or honoured sometimes steal secretly and imperceptibly upon the wise and virtuous, but by injudicious fondness or thoughtless vanity…
- With what hope can we endeavor to persuade the ladies that the time spent at the toilet is lost in vanity.
- A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist in the same…
- No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
- The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
- Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive
- No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library; for who can see the wall crowded on…
- Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those which…
More Vanity Quotes
- 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
- In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that… — Agnes Repplier
- Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Flattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied… — Jacques Barzun
- He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid… — Friedrich Nietzsche