Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Guiterman

Until the Donkey tried to clear The Fence, he thought himself a Deer.

Arthur Helps

It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live than to be loved by them; and this not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.

Dennis Lehane

Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is. I know this well...Vanity and dishonesty may be vices, but they're also the first forms of protection I ever knew.

Eliza Haywood

those Women who boast the Affections of their Admirers, have a greater share of Vanity than Love ...

William Shakespeare

Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others.

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.

Cherie Lunghi

I am simply not such a slave to my vanity, and I don't want to be, because as you get older you really have to start accepting the inevitable.

Charlotte Lennox

What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.

William Shakespeare

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

Bernard of Clairvaux

There are some who wish to learn for no other reason than that they may be looked upon as learned, which is ridiculous vanity ... Others desire to learn that they may morally instruct others, that is love. And, lastly, there are some who wish to learn that they may be themselves edified; and that is prudence.

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.

Chris Stapleton

I'm a fan of polarization. If you make something that is palatable to everybody, it's like making vanilla ice cream, and I think we have enough of that.

I want to go to Vancouver in 2010. I already want to win the gold.

Berthold Auerbach

The vain being is the really solitary being.

Jack Nicholson

I have a lot of vanity.

Hannah More

When you are disposed to be vain of your mental acquirements, look up to those who are more accomplished than yourself, that you may be fired with emulation; but when you feel dissatisfied with your circumstances, look down on those beneath you, that you may learn contentment.

Hannah More

There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little.

Larry David

I'll have a vanilla... one of those vanilla bullshit things. You know, whatever you want, some vanilla bullshit latte cappa thing. Whatever you got.

Neil Kinnock

The unforgivable political sin is vanity; the killer diet is sour grapes.

John Stott

Envy is the reverse side of a coin called vanity - Nobody is ever envious of others who is not first proud of himself.

Socrates

Through your rags I see your vanity.

Michelle Shocked

I'm one of the few that comes from this vantage point: I never tried to get a record deal.

Theodore Bikel

If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to.

Margaret Halsey

The only way not to worry about the race problem is to be doing something about it yourself. When you are, natural human vanity makes you feel that now the thing is in good hands.

Michele Bachmann

I'm not motivated by vanity, glory or the quest for power.

Michael Lindsay-Hogg

I completely trust Gloria Vanderbilt. I have always found her very honest.

Eric Hoffer

The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.

Lisa Kleypas

Because handsomeness is always accompanied by vanity.And I suppose ugliness is accompanied by a wealth of virtues?

John Stuart Mill

When a thing is bought not for its use but for its costliness, cheapness is no recommendation. As Sismondi remarks, the consequence of cheapening articles of vanity, is not that less is expended on such things, but that the buyers substitute for the cheapened article some other which is more costly, or a more elaborate quality of the same thing; and as the inferior quality answered the purpose of vanity equally well when it was equally expensive, a tax on the article is really paid by nobody: it is a creation of public revenue by which nobody loses.