Advantage Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is.…

— Dennis Lehane

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 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

He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Vanity is a strong temptation to lying; it makes people magnify their merit, over flourish their family, and tell strange stories of their interest…

— Jeremy Collier

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.

— Taylor Swift

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

A man's vanity is more fragile that you might think. It's easy for us to mistake shyness for coldness, and silence for indifference.

— Lisa Kleypas

Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with…

— Jacques Barzun

“For many men value appearances more than reality—thus they violate what’s right. Everyone’s prepared to sigh over some suffering man, though no sorrow really…

— Aeschylus

Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman.

— Jonathan Swift