Source: Pride and Prejudice
“Vanity, not love, has been my folly.”
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Variant: Let us think often that our only business in this life is to please God. Perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity.
Source: The Practice of the Presence of God
François Fénelon
(1651–1715) Catholic bishop
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 206.
“The highest form of vanity is love of fame.”
George Santayana
(1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism
The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. II, Reason in Society
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
(1841–1935) United States Supreme Court justice
1910s, "Law and the Court" (1913)
“Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.”
George Gordon Byron
(1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
Source: Monody on the Death of Sheridan (1816), Line 68.
Ibid., p. 88
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Cada um tem a sua vaidade, e a vaidade de cada um é o seu esquecimento de que há outros com alma igual.
“Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.”
Samuel Johnson
(1709–1784) English writer
“Too often in my life, love has been defined as "humiliation with occasional roses".”
Deb Caletti
(1963) American writer
Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming