Quotes 41 till 60 of 78.
-
Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
-
She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.
-
Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
-
Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.
-
That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments.
bij Boswell -
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
Pensees -
The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
-
The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
-
The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
-
The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.
-
The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.
-
The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.
-
The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders.
-
The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.
-
The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.
-
The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity.
-
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
-
The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
-
The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.
All vanity famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 3)
