Quotes about van
vanity honest shame
One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity. Friedrich Nietzsche
vanity morality hardest
Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many a morality.
vanity literature complacency
Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency. Franz Kafka
vanity soul forget
Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul. Fernando Pessoa
vanity profound effort
We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of the futility of all effort and the vanity of all plans.
vanity too-much abstinence
Too much is a vanity; enough is a feast. Francis Quarles
vanity lust female
The joker in the deck of lesbian fidelity is female vanity: no woman of fifty is going to undress in front of a woman of twenty no matter how much she might lust for her. Florence King
vanity filling-up want
By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it. Florence Nightingale
vanity worst hardest
I never understand how writers can succumb to vanity - what you work the hardest on is usually the worst. Flannery O'Connor
vanity purpose virtue
Purpose without virtue is vanity. Fernando Torres
vanity mind vexation
Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation. Helen Keller
vanishing causes fit
To superficial observers his chin had too vanishing an aspect, looking as if it were being gradually reabsorbed. And it did indeed cause him some difficulty about the fit of his satin stocks, for which chins were at that time useful. George Eliot
vanity noses conceit
Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of mental make in which one of us differs from another.
vanity hypocrisy modesty
There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery. Jean de la Bruyere
vanity never-let-me-go narcissism
My vanity and narcissism will never let me go too far. Jay Baruchel
vanity handsome next
It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman. Joseph Joubert
vanity guy comfort
I'm not sure if guys are supposed to read Vanity Fair. I feel very metrosexual with it but am not sure it's in my comfort zone. Mohsin Hamid
vanity common-sense common
Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense. Julian Casablancas
vanity desire should
Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.
vanity giants vulnerable
The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions.
vanity opponents free-will
The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity.
vanity unbearable wounds
That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
vanity giving generosity
Generosity is the vanity of giving.
vanity giving may
Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them.
vanity littles speak
We speak little if not egged on by vanity.
vanity doe virtue
If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.
vanity giving liberality
What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving.
vanity people insufferable
What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.
vanity people malice
People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.
vanity coins flattery
Flattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity.
vanity littles doe
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
vanity funeral honor
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
vanity virtue company
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.