Quote by Louis Kronenberger
Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in ot

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty. – Louis Kronenberger

Other quotes by Louis Kronenberger

The trouble with us in America isn’t that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy. – Louis Kronenberger

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Advertising
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The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told. – Louis Kronenberger

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relationship
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Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week. – Louis Kronenberger

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Age
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Other Quotes from
Vanity
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Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit. – Francis Bacon

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Vanity

We speak little if not egged on by vanity. – François de la Rochefoucauld

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Vanity

There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it. – Mark Twain, Notebook, 1898

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Vanity

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy. – Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do. – Voltaire

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Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. – Logan Pearsall Smith

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