Vainglorious Quotes (4 quotes)

“For some, life may be a playground to undermine the brainwaves of others or simply a vainglorious game with an armory of theatrics, illustrating only bleak self-deception, haughty narcissism and dim deficiency in empathy. ("Another empty room")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: armory, bleak, brainwave, deficiency, dim, empathy, empty, game, haughty, illustrating, life, narcissism, playground, room, self-deception, some, theatrics, undermine, vainglorious

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“We expect populists to be popular. However, what can be more inconsistent and nonsensical than “unpopular” populists. They start doing everything to fit the job and are gritting their teeth so hard that they shatter them all and are chewed to bits. The moral … let us be genuine, humble, and coherent instead of stumbling from a vainglorious stance into the opposite. ("Keeping up with the Joneses" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: coherent, grit-the-teeth, humble, inconsistent, keeping-up-with-the-joneses, nonsensical, populists, unpopular, vainglorious

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“Being bigheaded can be as irritating and as dangerous as being small-minded.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: above-oneself, aphorism, aphorisms, aphorist, aphorists, arrogance, arrogant, bigheaded, bigoted, bigotry, blinkered, close-minded, cocksure, cocky, complacent, conceit, conceited, conservative, danger, dangerous, dyed-in-the-wool, full-of-oneself, funny, hidebound, hilarious, humor, humorous, humour, illiberal, inflexible, insular, intolerant, inward-looking, irritate, irritating, irritation, joke, jokes, mean-spirited, myopic, narrow-minded, parochial, petty, pleased-with-oneself, prejudiced, provincial, puffed-up, satire, self-important, self-satisfied, set-in-one-s-ways, shortsighted, small-minded, small-town, smug, too-big-for-one-s-boots, too-big-for-one-s-britches, uncharitable, unimaginative, vain, vainglorious, vanity

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“keep your eyes on him, you wretched vainglorious creature,”
― Naomi Novik, Crucible of Gold

tags: arrogance-and-attitude, funny, granby, iskierka, vainglorious

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