Quotes about van
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 different pieces
You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by hearing the master pieces which have been produced at different periods. Robert Schumann
vanity secret chiefs
The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it. Samuel Johnson
vanity emulation folly
Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.
vanity atmosphere conceit
A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it.
vanity pity easy
It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled. Willa Cather
vanity proud pedants
Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity. Wilkie Collins
vanity sorrow arguing
He that would soothe sorrow must not argue on the vanity of the most deceitful hopes. Walter Scott
vanity and-love philanthropy
A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
vanity evil soul
He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth. Saint Augustine
vanity merit opinion
We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any other person's. William Hazlitt
vanity choices idolatry
A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry.
vanity admiration driven
Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.
vanity arrogant dull
In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates.
vanity touching religion
Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish. Walter Raleigh
vancouver columbia british
I grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia. Ryan Reynolds
vanity
Vanity is as old as the mammoth.
vanity sainthood may
The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away. Ramakrishna
vanity unattractive males
Theres nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity. Rafe Spall
vanity profound veins
Yet some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is no danger from vanity. Solemn friends will warn them of the danger of the head's being turned by the flourish of trumpets, but they can afford to smile. Ralph Waldo Emerson
vanity fame posthumous
And yet, after all, what is posthumous fame? Altogether vanity. Marcus Aurelius
vanity fame everlasting
And what after all is everlasting fame? Altogether vanity.
vanity god-love
All is vanity but to love God and serve Him. Thomas a Kempis
vanity toilets endeavor
With what hope can we endeavor to persuade the ladies that the time spent at the toilet is lost in vanity.
vanity evil degradation
Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very lightly uttered, and once uttered are sullenly supported.
vanity advice instruction
There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own beneficence.
vanity people doe
Vanity is normal in performers. Does it bother other people? All the time. But nine times out of 10, that says more about them than you. Tom Hardy
vanity way forrest-gump
The same way that I know that I'll never do a movie as good or as celebrated as 'Forrest Gump,' I know that I'll never do a movie as bad as 'Bonfire of the Vanities.' Tom Hanks
vanity people trying
It's not vanity, because if you look weird, it will distract from what your trying to do. If you look as good as you can, people will be able to pay attention to what your actually saying. Tina Fey
vanity people littles
Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things. Stendhal
vanity skins dirt
guileless and without vanity,we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our own skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness. Toni Morrison
vanity half sticks
Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business. Thomas Chandler Haliburton