Vainglorious Past Quotes

#1. Gillard is as likeable as Rudd is charmless. She is self-deprecating; he is ludicrously vainglorious. She is a mistress of understatement; he is a ranter.

Germaine Greer

#2. Their flashlight newly activated, they walked him into the cane
never had he heard anything so loud and alien, the susurration, the crackling, the flashes of motion underfoot (snake? mongoose?), overhead even the stars, all of them gathered in vainglorious congress.

Junot Diaz

#3. Here was one of the white man's most characteristic behavior patterns - where black men are concerned. He loves himself so much that he is startled if he discovers that his victims don't share his vainglorious self-opinion.

Malcolm X

#4. At the heart of the novelist's craft lies an optimism which thinks that the knowledge we gather from our everyday experience, if given proper form, can become valuable knowledge about reality.

Orhan Pamuk

#5. What I voice, I voice though my art, if that's not too vainglorious a word. But I don't think it is.

Brendan Gleeson

#6. No matter what anyone says, suicide takes guts. It's for heroes and martyrs, truly vainglorious men. Archie was none of these. He was a man whose significance in the Greater Scheme of Things could be figured along familiar ratios:
Pebble : Beach
Raindrop : Ocean
Needle : Haystack

Zadie Smith

#7. Keep your eyes on him, you wretched vainglorious creature,

Naomi Novik

#8. There are some in the church who are very good at presenting the appearance of humility and sacrifice, all for selfish, vainglorious reasons. They enjoy their reputations as servants more than they enjoy the gospel.

Matt Chandler

#9. I said it is vainglorious to reproach yourself for lack of omniscience. That is also true of omnipotence. Report in as you can.

Rex Stout

#10. But after a sojourn in the Adirondacks restored his health, he became persuaded of the curative powers of the mountain air and devoted himself to the study of respiratory problems. He

Jennet Conant

#11. For some decades now, it seems, there has been a ukase in place in American journalism to the effect that Canada is entitled to one story per season.

Stockwell Day

#12. Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.

Camille Paglia

#13. My father helped you with that. that thing you do?" "Yes. Your father helped me with that peacemaking thing I do that keeps you happily killing for a living.

G.A. Aiken

#14. You are successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal.

Chester Carlson

#15. Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword.

David Mitchell

#16. We should not lose ourselves in vainglorious sohemes for changing human nature all over the planet. Rather, we should learn to view ourselves with a sense of proportion and Christian humility before the enormous complexity of the world in which it has been given us to live.

George F. Kennan