Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Simmons

Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value. Those who impart them to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue, and religion, know their use. Those who lose them by accident or fraud know their vanity. And those who experience the difficulties and dangers of preserving them know their perplexities.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord who cannot endure vain repetitions is equally weary of vain variations.

Al Pacino

Vanity is my favourite sin.

Al Pacino

Vanity: my favorite sin.

Cherie Lunghi

I am simply not such a slave to my vanity, and I don't want to be, because as you get older you really have to start accepting the inevitable.

Charlotte Lennox

What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.

William Shakespeare

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

Bernard of Clairvaux

There are some who wish to learn for no other reason than that they may be looked upon as learned, which is ridiculous vanity ... Others desire to learn that they may morally instruct others, that is love. And, lastly, there are some who wish to learn that they may be themselves edified; and that is prudence.

Berthold Auerbach

The vain being is the really solitary being.

Jack Nicholson

I have a lot of vanity.

Hannah More

When you are disposed to be vain of your mental acquirements, look up to those who are more accomplished than yourself, that you may be fired with emulation; but when you feel dissatisfied with your circumstances, look down on those beneath you, that you may learn contentment.

Hannah More

There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little.

Anna Jameson

Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.

Jeff Lindsay

I was good at being charming, one of my very few vanities.

Jeremy London

I don't really lift weights. It's kind of a vanity thing that I don't get into.

George Sand

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

George Sand

Vanity is the most despotic and iniquitous of masters, and I can never be the slave of my own vices.

Jason Patric

Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very, very blurred.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.

Evelyn Waugh

Quomondo sedet sola civitas. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Gregory Peck

If you have to tell them who you are, you aren't anybody.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many a morality.

Franz Kafka

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

Fernando Pessoa

Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.

Fernando Pessoa

We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of the futility of all effort and the vanity of all plans.

Francis Quarles

Too much is a vanity; enough is a feast.

Florence King

The joker in the deck of lesbian fidelity is female vanity: no woman of fifty is going to undress in front of a woman of twenty no matter how much she might lust for her.

Florence Nightingale

By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.

Flannery O'Connor

I never understand how writers can succumb to vanity - what you work the hardest on is usually the worst.

Fernando Torres

Purpose without virtue is vanity.

Helen Keller

Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation.

George Eliot

Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of mental make in which one of us differs from another.