Quotes about van
vanity earth way
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. Elizabeth Smart
vanity guy looks
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. Philip Seymour Hoffman
vanity lovely married
My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely. Matthew Macfadyen
vanity sin my-favorite
Vanity is definitely my favorite sin. John Milton
vanity advice opinion
The vanity of being asked advice often makes us confirm the opinion of those that consult us. Norm MacDonald
vanity preserves
The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity. Miguel de Cervantes
vanity handsome imagine
For let us women be never so ill-favored, I imagine that we are always delighted to hear ourselves called handsome.
vanity thee preserves
A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity.
vanity wells reader
Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon. John Doerr
vanity curiosity unhappy
Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
vanity people greed
Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. Garrison Keillor
vanity imperfection annoyed
If we were faultless, we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate. If we were to acknowledge honestly that we have not virtue enough to bear patiently with our neighbor's weaknesses, we should show our own imperfection, and this alarms our vanity. Francois Fenelon
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 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
vanity despair doctrine
The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope. John Lancaster Spalding
vanity together mets
I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together. Joseph Hall
vanity bravery
The French courage proceeds from vanity Lord Byron
vanity may example
Ecclesiastes said that "all is vanity," Most modern preachers say the same, or show it By their examples of true Christianity: In short, all know, or very short may know it.
vanity ideas
The idea of Kanye and vanity are like, synonymous. Kanye West
vanity conventions renounce
You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion. Gustav Mahler
vanity literature conviction
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. Gustave Flaubert
vanity curiosity motive
I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity. Gilbert K. Chesterton
vanity insanity humanity
Aping urbanity, Oozing with vanity, Plump as a manatee, Faking humanity, Intellectual inanity, Journalistic calamity, Fox Noise insanity, You're a profanity, Hannity John Cleese
vanity parent house
My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read. Richard Avedon
vanity world true-value
The churchyard is the market place where all things are rated at their true value, and those who are approaching it talk of the world and its vanities with a wisdom unknown before. Richard Baxter
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 stupidity
Stupidity talks, vanity acts. Victor Hugo
vanity people want
No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you're better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can. Thomas More
vanity vexation impossible
It was needless, after this, to say that all was vanity and vexation of spirit; for it is impossible to derive happiness from the company of those whom we deprive of happiness. Thomas Paine