Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The judgments our enemies make about us come nearer to the truth than those we make about ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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.

Hugh Laurie

One thing House needs Wilson for is vanity. He needs someone to laugh at his jokes.

Horace Walpole

It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love.

Jackie DeShannon

The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.

Muhammad Ali

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

Mario Puzo

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

Paul Engle

You come to know the aches and vanities and tastes and intrigues of an entire neighborhood at a drug store.

Mary Wortley Montagu

One can never outlive one's vanity.

Martha Graham

Censorship is the height of vanity.

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.

Christopher Fry

It's always our touches of vanity that manage to betray us.

George Santayana

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

George Santayana

We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

Jorge Luis Borges

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

Joni Mitchell

Van Gogh was impulsive.

Kenneth Clark

You have no idea what portrait painters suffer from the vanity of their sitters.