Hardest Quote by Flannery O'Connor

You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about fiction writing;…

— David Foster Wallace

Vanity is a strange passion; rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices.

— Josh Billings

Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.

— Richard Steele

So much of writing is fed by vanity and the feeling that what you are doing is the most important thing in the world…

— Pankaj Mishra

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

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 is easily duped. Ambition, not.

— Mason Cooley

What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Vanity is an expressionless stylistic device.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

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

— David Eddings

“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

When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more.

— Amelie Nothomb