Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The nicest gifts are those left, nameless and quiet, unburdened with love, or vanity, or the desire for attention.

Aesop

Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.

Alexander Pope

And not a vanity is given in vain.

Don DeLillo

If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.

Danny Boyle

What you do is take the power [popularity] gives you - which is very temporary and minor but significant - and use it. The danger is that you use it on a vanity project that no one wants to watch.

David Steel

All politicians have vanity. Some wear it more gently than others.

Alfred de Musset

Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.

Al Roker

My old modus operandi was, if you're going to have a grilled cheese and bacon sandwich, don't have one, have two. If you're going to have vanilla wafers, you have the whole box.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Bette Davis

I guess I'm larger than life. That's my problem.

Bill Vaughan

Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.

Bertrand Russell

Vanity is a motive of immense potency.

Bertrand Russell

One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about.

Bertrand Russell

I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs me, nothing seems worth doing or worth having done: the only thing that I strongly feel worth while would be to murder as many people as possible so as to diminish the amount of consciousness in the world. These times have to be lived through: there is nothing to be done with them.

Bertrand Russell

What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power.

James McBride

I put headlights in Ford vans. I still drive a Ford.

John Doerr

Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.

Garrison Keillor

Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.

Francois Fenelon

If we were faultless, we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate. If we were to acknowledge honestly that we have not virtue enough to bear patiently with our neighbor's weaknesses, we should show our own imperfection, and this alarms our vanity.

Jorge Luis Borges

To bless thine enemy is a good way to satisfy thy vanity.

Joni Mitchell

Van Gogh was impulsive.

Jonathan Swift

Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman.

Lord Byron

The French courage proceeds from vanity

Lord Byron

Ecclesiastes said that "all is vanity," Most modern preachers say the same, or show it By their examples of true Christianity: In short, all know, or very short may know it.

Emile M. Cioran

I try--without success--to stop finding reasons for vanity in anything. When I happen to manage it nonetheless, I feel that I no longer belong to the mortal gang. I am above everything then, above the gods themselves. Perhaps that is what death is: a sensation of great, of extreme superiority.

Henry Ward Beecher

There is nothing which vanity does not desecrate.

Henry Fielding

O vanity, how little is thy force acknowledged or thy operations discerned! How wantonly dost thou deceive mankind under different disguises! Sometimes thou dost wear the face of pity; sometimes of generosity; nay, thou hast the assurance to put on those glorious ornaments which belong only to heroic virtue.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Vanity and rudeness are seldom seen together.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites.

Jim Morrison

Guileless and without vanity, we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness. Jealousy we understood and thought natural--a desire to have what somebody else had; but envy was a strange, new feeling for us.

Benjamin Disraeli

Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

Anna Jameson

Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.