Agitate Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is a mighty error to suppose that none but violent and strong passions, such as love and ambition, are able to vanquish the…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness, languid as…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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

— Christopher Fry

The passion of vanity has its own depths in the spirit, and is powerfully militant.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Vanity is a motive of immense potency.

— Bertrand Russell

Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man.

— Robert Winston

It is difficult to say which is the greatest evil--to have too violent passions, or to be wholly devoid of them. Controlled with firmness,…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Vanity is so closely allied to virtue, and to love the fame of laudable actions approaches so near the love of laudable actions for…

— David Hume

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

What is vanity but the longing to survive?

— Miguel de Unamuno

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

— Sophie Swetchine