Blaise Pascal Quotes

One thing House needs Wilson for is vanity. He needs someone to laugh at his jokes.

We are so presumptuous that we wish to be known to all the world, even to those who come after us; and we are so vain that the esteem of five or six persons immediately around us is enough to amuse and satisfy us.

What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power.

Though the desire of fame be the last weakness Wise men put off.

As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself.

How vain, without the merit, is the name.

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

I don't want to take fame for granted because that is when you start to think you are better than everyone else. That is when you start thinking that you are someone that you are not.

I think that some people get wrapped up in their own egos. They need to see certain album sales and certain monuments.

I don't think stardom will ever go to my head.

When I got successful and people started talking about me, I didn't want anyone thinking I thought I was a 'big time Charlie.'

Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.

Vanity, or to call it by a gentler name, the desire of admiration and applause, is, perhaps, the most universal principle of humanactions.... Where that desire is wanting, we are apt to be indifferent, listless, indolent, and inert.... I will own to you, under the secrecy of confession, that my vanity has very often made me take great pains to make many a woman in love with me, if I could, for whose person I would not have given a pinch of snuff.

The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.

Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.

Vanity is so anchored in the heart of man that a soldier, a soldier's servant, a cook, a porter brags and wishes to have his admirers. Even philosophers wish for them. Those who write against vanity want to have the glory of having written well; and those who read it desire the glory of having read it. I who write this have perhaps this desire, and perhaps those who will read it.

Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.

Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.

I need an audience way more than an audience needs me.

My ego is really good. I don't need to watch myself on TV, like some others.