Religion Quote by Christopher Hitchens

“it is often nothing but our own vanity that decieves us”

— Jane Austen

“And, lastly (I may as well confess it, since my denial of it will be believed by nobody), perhaps I shall a good deal…

— Benjamin Franklin

“No point in wasting time with false vanity when you possess the real thing.”

— Alan Bradley

“secrecy is a hotbed of vanity”

— Joseph Brodsky

“Vanity is an expressionless stylistic device.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

“Virtue would not go so far if vanity did not keep it company.”

— La Rocherfoucauld

“When you only have one vanity, I think you’re allowed to indulge it.)”

— Erin Kelly

“Vanity might be a "sin" according to some lights, but he thought in measured doses it was one of life's allowable simple pleasures. It…

— Anonymous

“I have frequently experienced myself the mood in which I felt that all is vanity; I have emerged from it not by any philosophy,…

— Betrand Russell

Human vanity is so constituted that it stiffens before difficulties. The more an object conceals itself from our eyes, the greater the effort we…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and…

— Joseph Addison