Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Nigel Kennedy

Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time.

Myrtle Reed

Conceit is lovable and unconcealed ; vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.

Myrtle Reed

It is personal vanity of the most flagrant type which intrudes itself, unasked, into other people's affairs. There are few of us who do not feel capable of ordering the daily lives of others, down to the most minute detail.

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.

Matthew Macfadyen

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

Mason Cooley

Vanity well fed is benevolent. Vanity hungry is spiteful.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Gary Smith

Vanguard won't let you get away with anything.

Sophie Swetchine

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

Stephen Young

Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety.

Thomas Haden Church

I have a healthy sense of vanity. I like to look good for myself, which is what a lot of women say. I want to stay fit.

William Wordsworth

Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion take their daily birth From all the fuming vanities of earth.

William Saroyan

There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.

William James

If any one phrase could gather its (religion's) universal message, that phrase would be, - All is not vanity in this Universe, whatever the appearances may suggest.

Sarah Chalke

I lived in Vancouver, where they film so many things. So it gave me a good shot at it.

Saint Francis de Sales

Be neat, Philothea; let nothing be negligent about you. It is a kind of contempt of those with whom we converse, to frequent their company in uncomely apparel; but, at the same time, avoid all affectation, vanity, curiosity, or levity in your dress. Keep yourself always, as much as possible, on the side of plainness and modesty, which, without doubt, is the greatest ornament of beauty, and the best excuse for the want of it.