Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gustav Mahler

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

Gustave Flaubert

I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity.

John Lancaster Spalding

The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope.

Joseph Hall

I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together.

Kanye West

The idea of Kanye and vanity are like, synonymous.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Oscar Wilde

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

Julian Casablancas

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

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.

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.