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
vanilla
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. Chris Stapleton
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 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 littles virtue
Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
vanity enemy judgment
The judgments our enemies make about us come nearer to the truth than those we make about ourselves.
vanity air mind
Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind.
vanity flattery currents
Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.
vanity three mixtures
Clemency, which we make a virtue of, proceeds sometimes from vanity, sometimes from indolence, often from fear, and almost always from a mixture of all three.
vanity laughing house
One thing House needs Wilson for is vanity. He needs someone to laugh at his jokes. Hugh Laurie
vanity self impossible
It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love. Horace Walpole
vanity important lines
Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very, very blurred. Jason Patric
vanity people feelings
If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them. F. Scott Fitzgerald
vanity
Quomondo sedet sola civitas. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity. Evelyn Waugh
vanity contentment looks
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
vanity faults littles
There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little.
vanilla whatever
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. Larry David
vancouver win
I want to go to Vancouver in 2010. I already want to win the gold.
vanity gossip behind-my-back
One's own vanities and humiliations I find a delicious subject for conversation. Things said of me behind my back I don't enjoy, and don't listen to them. Logan Pearsall Smith
vanity stupidity ifs
It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't; It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them. Lucy Maud Montgomery
vanity rome despair
Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair. Louisa May Alcott
vanity years fire
The alchemists spent years in their laboratories, observing the fire that purified the metals. They spent so much time close to the fire that gradually they gave up the vanities of the world. They discovered that the purification of the metals had led to a purification of themselves. Paulo Coelho
vanity hazards accepting
Without vanity a writer's work is tepid, and he must accept his vanity as part of his stock in trade and live with it as one of the hazards of his profession. Moss Hart
vanity generosity giving
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more. If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one. Mother Teresa
vanity people soul
Because arrogance is born in personal vanity, arrogant people are driven without mercy. They can never get enough power to fill the soul's needs or enough respect to overcome the fear that they deserve less than they are getting. Lewis B. Smedes
vanguard
Fear itself is the vanguard of wisdom Pema Chodron