Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.

Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters - self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and self-seeking.

Philanthropy can have a very strong selfish component.

What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving.

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

Whatever you do for the sole purpose of having others admire you, your efforts will most likely be in vain.

Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.

Generosity is the vanity of giving.

What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

Up to his twenty-sixth year, the heart of Ignatius was enthralled by the vanities of the world. His special delight was in the military life, and he seemed led by a strong and empty desire of gaining for himself a great name.

I don't want to be seen as the kind of person who does things and then expects publicity in return.

There's a danger in Hollywood of becoming self-obsessed.

There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.

My ego is sated.

A lot of self-importance goes on in the fashion industry. I'm not like that.

I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves!

Gentlemen, start your egos.

I never used the press for anything except my charity.

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.