Famous Quotes & Sayings

Denis Diderot

Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?

Denis Diderot

I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.

Alexander Smith

Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its services a kind word or an approving smile.

William Shakespeare

Shine out fair sun, till I have bought a glass, That I may see my shadow as I pass.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something that had much better be concealed; namely, that their vanity has survived themselves.

Charles Simmons

Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value. Those who impart them to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue, and religion, know their use. Those who lose them by accident or fraud know their vanity. And those who experience the difficulties and dangers of preserving them know their perplexities.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord who cannot endure vain repetitions is equally weary of vain variations.

Al Pacino

Vanity is my favourite sin.

Al Pacino

Vanity: my favorite sin.

Isla Fisher

You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid.

Kristy McNichol

I say to my mother all the time, 'You're the child.' And she says, 'Yeah, you're the mother.' I've been that way with her since I was 11.

William Shakespeare

Self-love, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

Enrique Pena Nieto

One single visit is not enough to be able to say that you know Mexico.

Mitch Leigh

My advice to singers is always the same: 'Don't sing the song, sing the lyric.'

Peter Murray

More is going on now than at any time since the Victorians.

Ken Kutaragi

My homeroom teacher told me I wasn't cooperative, ... I used to get mad, thinking I was being singled out.

Mark Brunell

Obviously, it's been a long time since he's been in the playoffs, but he is used to winning in the playoffs.

Charles Spurgeon

Sin has been pardoned at such a price that we cannot henceforth trifle with it.

Mel Gibson

I'm as vain as the next guy. I have a facade on right now. But you can't see it, because it's reality-based.

Mark Twain

Nothing is made in vain, but the fly came near it.

Mary Howitt

To ask me is in vain; For who goes up your winding stair Can ne'er come down again.

Hosea Ballou

Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.

Horace

Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion.

Joseph Addison

Whilst I yet live, let me not live in vain.

Philip Sidney

Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker.

John Gay

Who talks much, must talk in vain.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One says a lot in vain, refusing; The other mainly hears the "No.