Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeremy London

I don't really lift weights. It's kind of a vanity thing that I don't get into.

Christopher Fry

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

John Adams

Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it.

Norman Mailer

If you can change style, why stick to one style? Style is a vanity because it gives you product identification.

Emile M. Cioran

I try--without success--to stop finding reasons for vanity in anything. When I happen to manage it nonetheless, I feel that I no longer belong to the mortal gang. I am above everything then, above the gods themselves. Perhaps that is what death is: a sensation of great, of extreme superiority.

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.

Jonathan Swift

Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman.

Fernando Pessoa

Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.

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.

Nigella Lawson

There is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity.

Nicolas Chamfort

The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.

Nicolas Chamfort

Egotism is the tongue of vanity.

Nick Vujicic

At my funeral, if one said, 'Nick was a generous person,' trust me I won't be doing cartwheels in my coffin. Recognition from people is never and never will be a goal. Some people strive for that respect or honor. Living a life to just reach for the position and status is vanity and sin.

Elizabeth Smart

Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.

Eric Hoffer

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

John Milton

Vanity is definitely my favorite sin.

Norm MacDonald

The vanity of being asked advice often makes us confirm the opinion of those that consult us.

Miguel de Cervantes

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

Miguel de Cervantes

For let us women be never so ill-favored, I imagine that we are always delighted to hear ourselves called handsome.

Miguel de Cervantes

A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity.

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.

Friedrich Schiller

Gray hairs are death's blossoms.

Frederick the Great

Euler calculated the force of the wheels necessary to raise the water in a reservoir ... My mill was carried out geometrically and could not raise a drop of water fifty yards from the reservoir. Vanity of vanities! Vanity of geometry!

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The solution to the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem.

John Cleese

Aping urbanity, Oozing with vanity, Plump as a manatee, Faking humanity, Intellectual inanity, Journalistic calamity, Fox Noise insanity, You're a profanity, Hannity

Matthew Macfadyen

My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely.

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.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that.