Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Nietzsche

One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many a morality.

Jack Nicholson

I have a lot of vanity.

Mohsin Hamid

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.

Julian Casablancas

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

Mario Puzo

I want to tell you a story. I have no other vanity.

Muhammad Ali

I'll destroy you. I am the master of disaster.

Jean de la Bruyere

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.

Jay Baruchel

My vanity and narcissism will never let me go too far.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!

Katie Holmes

I'm so spoiled - I must have a Starbucks vanilla latte every day.

The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are coarse; we need women who are kind. There enough women are rude; we need women who are refined. We have enough women of fame and fortune; we need women of faith. We have enough greed; we need more goodness. We have enough vanity; we need more virtue. We have enough popularity; we need more purity.

Margaret Deland

moral vanity is the snare of good people.

Mark Twain

All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics.

Mark Twain

There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?

Miguel de Unamuno

What is vanity but the longing to survive?

Grimes

I have a lot of Japanese friends: I grew up in Vancouver, and there's this huge Japanese population over there.

Gregory Peck

If you have to tell them who you are, you aren't anybody.

Theodore Parker

That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving.

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.

Oscar Wilde

Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

Oscar Wilde

If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that...for that, I would give my SOUL for that.

Michael Zaslow

My vanity is not dead. I laugh when I see pictures of myself as I am now-maybe so I won't cry, but just because it is really funny how much I've changed.

Michel de Montaigne

It is in vain that we get upon stilts, for once on them, it is still with our legs that we must walk. And on the highest throne in the world we are still sitting on our own ass.

Mark Twain

He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.

Mason Cooley

Vanity well fed is benevolent. Vanity hungry is spiteful.