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- Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
- Cardinal John Newman
- Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
- George Sands
- There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.
- George Washington (1732 - 1799)
- Vanity makes us do more things against inclination than reason.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- The general cry is against ingratitude, but the complaint is misplaced, it should be against vanity; none but direct villains are capable of willful ingratitude; but almost everybody is capable of thinking he hath done more that another deserves, while the other thinks he hath received less than he deserves.
- Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
- Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.
- Arthur Helps
- To ask for advice is in nine cases out of ten to ask for flattery.
- John Churton Collins
- Most people pay too much for the things they get for nothing.
- Author Unknown
- People care more about being thought to have taste than about being good, clever, or amiable.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.
- Lin Yutang
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