Famous quotes containing the words golden and/or vanity:
“The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“For if there is anything to one’s praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse—why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!”
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)