Jealousy Quote by Van Wyck Brooks

We must not let the actions or words of others determine our responses. Magnanimous people make the choice to respond to the indignities of…

— Stephen Covey

Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.

— Richard Steele

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

Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others.

— William Shakespeare

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

If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.

— St. Jerome

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

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

Vanity is a motive of immense potency.

— Bertrand Russell

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 can apply to both insecurity and egotism.

— Taylor Swift