Advantage Quote by Thomas F. Wilson

There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their…

— 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

It is our own vanity that makes the vanity of others intolerable to us

— François De La Rochefoucauld

For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity cannot be…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

— Jane Austen

Vanity is so constantly solicitous of self, that even where its own claims are not interested, it indirectly seeks the aliment which it loves,…

— William Gilmore Simms

Perhaps sometimes we have self-serving sense that we often experience when we believe we know better than our boss, our teacher, our spouse or…

— Mary C. Gentile

Vanity, or to call it by a gentler name, the desire of admiration and applause, is, perhaps, the most universal principle of humanactions… Where…

— Lord Chesterfield

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

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

— Christopher Fry

Vanity often produces unreasonable alarm.

— Ann Radcliffe

We cannot safely assume that other people's minds work on the same principles as our own. All too often, others with whom we come…

— Isabel Briggs Myers