(225 quotes found)
“What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be ''man''!”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this”
Blaise Pascal
“The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him”
Helen Rowland
“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.”
Iris Murdoch
“Vanity made the [French] Revolution; liberty was only a pretext.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We woman have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.”
Oscar Wilde
“Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.”
Garrison Keillor
“I observe that a very large portion of the human race does not believe in God and suffers no visible punishment in consequence. And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who”
Bertrand Russell
“Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.”
“There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth”
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
