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.

Nancy Morris

One woman said it was things like this that made her proud to be a resident of Watertown.

Frank Maloney

Now, we had something we could be proud of showing the recruits.

Dennis Christopher

I've done a lot of things with theater that I'm very, very proud of.

Dennis Eckersley

I'm proud of the fact that I pitched almost 3,300 innings.

Dean Smith

You should never be proud of doing the right thing. You should just do it.

Shawn Almond

I can't say enough how proud I am of them tonight.

Mark Gerald

From where we started to where we came, I'm pretty proud of them.

Eddie Vedder

I'm making music for music's sake, and I have an audience I'm proud of.

Dave Ramsey

Be very proud of what you do, and if you aren't then change it.

Albert J. Nock

Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.

H. L. Mencken

The pedant and the priest have always been the most expert of logicians -- and the most diligent disseminators of nonsense and worse.

George Orwell

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.

Winston Churchill

This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.