"Stupidity talks, vanity acts...." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.”

“If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.”

“Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.”

“Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration, that, if man is stupid, then who is wise?) But if he is not stupid, he is monstrously ungrateful! Phenomenally ungrateful. In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.”

“He was not so much brain as earwax”

“The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.”

“Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action: and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life.”

“Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.”

“Vanity is the quicksand of reason.”