Anne-Marie Bigot de Cornuel Quotes

No man is a hero to his valet de chamber

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.

Clearly I've got an ego.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

I'm a human. Every human is flawed. I might be flawed in different ways than some people, or worse ways than some people, or better ways than some people.

Nobody's perfect. And if you think they are, you're sadly mistaken.

Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?

Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.

If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.

It's easy to see the faults in people I know; it's hardest to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there.

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.

The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his hat.

I was trying to be 27 at age 47, but God had to get rid of my vanity. I had trouble letting go of the old Lex physically. My human fleshly nature didn't want to let go of what had come to be billed as 'The Total Package.' I guess God had to help me get rid of the last remnant of that vanity and pride.

I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.

It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.

To all the women that I've offended, I had no intention to be offensive, to violate any physical or emotional space. I was trying to establish personal relationships, but the combination of awkwardness and hubris led to behavior that I think many found offensive.

It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.

For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt.

People see us as no better than we are.

Man is never perfect, nor contented.

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much, Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

There are few people who are more often wrong than those who cannot suffer being wrong.

My ego and my vanities have nothing to do with comedy.