In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice

Quote by Louis Kronenberger

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The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species...

The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species...

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do...

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do...

The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination.

The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination.

Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death...

Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death...

The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species...

The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species...

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to...

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to...

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to...

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to...

Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.

Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make...

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make...

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some...

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some...

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the...

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the...

Beauty's sister is vanity, and its daughter lust.

Beauty's sister is vanity, and its daughter lust.

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness

When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all...

When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all...

One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on....

One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on....

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in...

Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in...

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice

We speak little if not egged on by vanity

We speak little if not egged on by vanity