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Letter "V" » Vanity
«Vanity, like murder, will out»
Author: Hannah Cowley
| About:
Vanity
«The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.»
«The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.»
Author: Samuel Butler
| About:
Arrogance,
Ignorance,
Pride,
Vanity
| Keywords:
arrogance, characters, Pride and, truest, vanity
«The surest cure for vanity is loneliness»
«The highest form of vanity is love of fame.»
«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.»
«Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| About:
Vanity
| Keywords:
chase, Company of, continual, ignis fatuus
«The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Arrogance,
Pride,
Tyranny,
Vanity,
Wealth
| Keywords:
arrogance, offspring, ostentation, The Offspring
«Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.»
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