Top Vainglory Quotes

  • Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of. – Augustine of Hippo

    Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of.– Augustine of Hippo

  • The desolate narrowness, the definitive thinness of experience is both the vainglory and the dead giveaway of a provincial man. – Pat Conroy

    The desolate narrowness, the definitive thinness of experience is both the vainglory and the dead giveaway of a provincial man.– Pat Conroy

  • Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex. – Barbara W Tuchman

    Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex.– Barbara W Tuchman