Quotes with vanities

  • Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.
  • Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

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  • Francois René de Chateaubriand Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.
    Francois René de Chateaubriand
    French poet, writer and politician (1768 - 1848)
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  • Tennessee Williams Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed ''Wisdom.'' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: ''Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.''
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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