Advice Quote by Samuel Johnson

Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice, that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without any very…

— Samuel Johnson

We all know that a sympathetic and intelligent listener not only flatters our vanity, but also frequently enables us to crystallize our own ideas…

— Thomas F. Wilson

Vanity is a motive of immense potency.

— Bertrand Russell

Vanity often produces unreasonable alarm.

— Ann Radcliffe

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

— Jane Austen

There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.

— Michel de Montaigne

And not a vanity is given in vain.

— Alexander Pope

Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without very accurate…

— Samuel Johnson

We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— David Eddings

“Vanity is an expressionless stylistic device.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill management makes…

— Jonathan Swift