Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
Blaise PascalAll these handsome guys are the same. When they're done combing their goddam hair, they beat it on you.
J.D. SalingerMots clés vanity
It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is in our follies that we are at one.
Jerome K. JeromeMots clés vanity idleness faults
The problem is hedonism. The problem is the preening vanity and selfishness of 'coming out,' of parading private inclinations, of a kind that repel normal people, as if those inclinations were, all by themselves, marks of authenticity and virtue, of suffering and oppression.
John DerbyshireMots clés vanity selfishness egotism hedonish
We've already had Malthus, the friend of humanity. But the friend of humanity with shaky moral principles is the devourer of humanity, to say nothing of his conceit; for, wound the vanity of any one of these numerous friends of humanity, and he's ready to set fire to the world out of petty revenge—like all the rest of us, though, in that, to be fair; like myself, vilest of all, for I might well be the first to bring the fuel and run away myself.
Fyodor DostoevskyMots clés idealism vanity humanism 1869 secular-humanism lebedyev
At the end of the day, if pride is your greatest strength, turn it into vanity.
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How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is the personal object of a divine plan?
Christopher HitchensBeyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.
Dejan StojanovicMots clés wisdom books poetry philosophy silence literature poets vanity desires quotes omnipotent fights beyond poetry-quotes literature-quotes dejan-stojanovic the-sun-watches-the-sun
We must remember that possession of physical beauty can easily weaken the moral faculty.
Frank TallisMots clés morality beauty weakness vanity
In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat.
David HewsonMots clés vanity threat hidden-meaning
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