Quotes about van
vanity littles virtue
Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
vanity enemy judgment
The judgments our enemies make about us come nearer to the truth than those we make about ourselves.
vanity air mind
Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind.
vanity flattery currents
Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.
vanity three mixtures
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.
vanity laughing house
One thing House needs Wilson for is vanity. He needs someone to laugh at his jokes. Hugh Laurie
vanity self impossible
It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love. Horace Walpole
vanity giving stories
The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure. Jackie DeShannon
vanity enemy way
To bless thine enemy is a good way to satisfy thy vanity. Jorge Luis Borges
vans impulsive
Van Gogh was impulsive. Joni Mitchell
vanity ideas suffering
You have no idea what portrait painters suffer from the vanity of their sitters. Kenneth Clark
vans headlights stills
I put headlights in Ford vans. I still drive a Ford. James McBride
vanity trying gang
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. Emile M. Cioran
vanity doe
There is nothing which vanity does not desecrate. Henry Ward Beecher
vanity generosity different
O vanity, how little is thy force acknowledged or thy operations discerned! How wantonly dost thou deceive mankind under different disguises! Sometimes thou dost wear the face of pity; sometimes of generosity; nay, thou hast the assurance to put on those glorious ornaments which belong only to heroic virtue. Henry Fielding
vanity together rudeness
Vanity and rudeness are seldom seen together. Johann Kaspar Lavater
vanity envy feelings
Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
vanity temptation natural
Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman. Jonathan Swift
vanity giving style
If you can change style, why stick to one style? Style is a vanity because it gives you product identification. Norman Mailer
vanity spiteful hungry
Vanity well fed is benevolent. Vanity hungry is spiteful. Mason Cooley
vanity giving liberality
That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving. Theodore Parker
vanity vices danger
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. John Adams
vanity envy feelings
Guileless and without vanity, we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness. Jealousy we understood and thought natural--a desire to have what somebody else had; but envy was a strange, new feeling for us. Jim Morrison
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