Focus Quote by David Hewson

Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When men will not be reasoned out of a vanity, they must be ridiculed out of it.

— Heath L'Estrange

Vanity is apt to inspire contempt, but that becomes immediately tempered by a gentler and more gracious feeling; for the vain man desires to…

— Arthur Alfred Lynch

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

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

— Jane Austen

It's always our touches of vanity that manage to betray us.

— Christopher Fry

Whether a man hides his bad qualities and vices or confesses them openly, his vanity wants to gain an advantage by it in both…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Vanity is so firmly anchored in man's heart that a soldier, a camp follower, a cook or a porter will boast and expect admirers,…

— Blaise Pascal

Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read…

— Blaise Pascal

Vanity's ridiculous, be we all fall prey to it from time to time.

— David Eddings

Guard against that vanity which courts a compliment, or is fed by it.

— Thomas Chalmers

“SHUN the gossip of men as much as possible, for discussion of worldly affairs, even though sincere, is a great distraction inasmuch as we…

— Thomas à Kempis