Vanity Plates

Famous quotes containing the words vanity and/or plates:

“Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“Behold now this vast city; a city of refuge, the mansion house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with his protection; the shop of war hath not there more anvils and hammers waking, to fashion out the plates and instruments of armed justice in defence of beleaguered truth, than there be pens and hands there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)