Montesquieu Quotes

If people buy my books for vanity, I consider it a tax on idiocy.

Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man's own making.

Pride is a fool's fortress

The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

I can't stand when people say, 'Don't hate me because I'm beautiful'. OK, how about I hate you because you said that.

The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

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

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

The French are so into themselves that they don't even notice you.

'Vanity' means worthlessness.

Sam Duvet is like me but turned up: more vain and dumber.

When you're young and arrogant and cocky and feel you're invincible, you say a lot of mean things to a lot of people because you think you're better, you don't need to deal with people.

SpongeBob represents idiocy. He is dumb. Patrick is dumb. Mr. Krabs is greedy. Squidward is a snob and vain.

A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.

SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they happen to read about themselves or employ others to collect.

O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.

The greatest fool is he who thinks he is not one and all others are.

VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass.