FD Francois de La Rochefoucauld Writer “Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.” Ambition Honor Vanity ♥ 3
FD Francois de La Rochefoucauld Writer “Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind.” Mind Air Vanity ♥ 3
FD Francois de La Rochefoucauld Writer “Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.” Littles Virtue ♥ 3
FD Francois de La Rochefoucauld Writer “Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity.” Pride Vanity ♥ 3
FD Francois de La Rochefoucauld Writer “Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.” Vanity Flattery Currents ♥ 3
FD Francois de La Rochefoucauld Writer “The courage of a great many men, and the virtue of a great many women, are the effect of vanity, shame, and especially a suitabletemperament.” Men Courage Vanity ♥ 3
Margaret Thatcher Politician “Europe is... a monument to the vanity of individuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure.” Destiny Europe Vanity ♥ 3
Helen Keller Author, Activist “Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation.” Mind Vanity Vexation ♥ 3
George Sand Novelist, Memoirist “Vanity is the most despotic and iniquitous of masters, and I can never be the slave of my own vices.” Vices Vanity Slave ♥ 3
George Washington Military Leader, Politician “I consider it an indubitable mark of mean-spiritedness and pitiful vanity to court applause from the pen or tongue of man.” Men Mean Vanity ♥ 3
Gustave Flaubert Novelist “There was an air of indifference about them, a calm produced by the gratification of every passion; and through their manners were suave, one could sense beneath them that special brutality which comes from the habit of breaking down half-hearted resistances that keep one fit and tickle one’s vanity—the handling of blooded horses, the pursuit of loose women.” Passion Horse Vanity ♥ 3
Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist “I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity.” Vanity Curiosity Motive ♥ 3
