Vainglorious Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Naomi Novik

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. Close your EYES,
hear the RAIN,
and listen to my WORDS.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#13. 23 c Whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue d keeps himself out of e trouble.

Anonymous

#14. If he said anything to me, I would gather the sentences like a shell seeker.

David Levithan

#15. The president of Iran should remember that Iran can also be wiped off the map.

Shimon Peres

#16. Mr. Arsenikos said if you knew the constellations you would never get lost. You could always find your way home.

Bryn Greenwood

#17. Sometimes two people have to fall apart, to realize how much they need to fall back together.

Colleen Hoover