(225 quotes found)
“The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about”
Bertrand Russell
“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.”
Jane Austen
“Valor is a soldierly compound of vanity, duty and the gambler's hope.”
Ambrose Bierce
“The surest cure for vanity is loneliness”
Thomas Wolfe
“God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.”
D.H. Lawrence
“The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.”
Samuel Butler
“Women, and young men, are very apt to tell what secrets they know, from the vanity of having been trusted”
Lord Chesterfield
“Vanity is the quicksand of reason”
George Sand
