Generosity Quote by Theodore Parker

What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.

— Charlotte Lennox

Liberality is not giving much, but giving wisely.

— Benjamin Franklin

Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.

— Jean de la Bruyere

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Some are unwisely liberal, and more delight to give presents than to pay debts.

— Philip Sidney

Generosity is the vanity of giving.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I remember when being liberal meant being generous with your own money.

— Will Rogers

The proof of liberal virtue is generousity with other people's money.

— George Will

The liberality of one who has much, in permitting one who has nothing to get all that he can.

— Ambrose Bierce

There are people who are known to be very liberal, yet they never give without scolding or pride or even insolence.

— John Calvin

What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld