Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
More Quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld:
There is an eloquent silence it serves sometimes to approve, sometimes to condemn there is a mocking silence there is a respectful silence.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Conceits Quotes, Wit Quotes'I hate discussions of feminism that end up with who does the dishes,' she said. So do I. But at the end, there are always the damned dishes.
Marilyn French
Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher.
Bjarne Stroustrup
But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void, because it is repugnant to the law of nature and of nations.
William H. Seward