Quotes about vanity
vanity giving may
Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
vanity littles speak
We speak little if not egged on by vanity.
vanity doe virtue
If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.
vanity giving liberality
What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving.
vanity people insufferable
What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.
vanity people malice
People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.
vanity coins flattery
Flattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity.
vanity littles doe
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
vanity funeral honor
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
vanity virtue company
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
vanity weight kind
I don't really lift weights. It's kind of a vanity thing that I don't get into. Jeremy London
vanity reason quicksand
Vanity is the quicksand of reason. George Sand
vanity vices slave
Vanity is the most despotic and iniquitous of masters, and I can never be the slave of my own vices.
vanity betray manage
It's always our touches of vanity that manage to betray us. Christopher Fry
vanity reputation fame
The highest form of vanity is love of fame. George Santayana
vanity support forgiving
We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.
vanity contempt behinds
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman. Friedrich Nietzsche
vanity charming
I was good at being charming, one of my very few vanities. Jeff Lindsay
vanity soul forget
Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul. Fernando Pessoa
vanity profound effort
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.
vanity too-much abstinence
Too much is a vanity; enough is a feast. Francis Quarles
vanity ifs who-you-are
If you have to tell them who you are, you aren't anybody. Gregory Peck
vanity honest shame
One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.
vanity morality hardest
Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many a morality.
vanity literature complacency
Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency. Franz Kafka
vanity hypocrisy modesty
There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery. Jean de la Bruyere
vanity never-let-me-go narcissism
My vanity and narcissism will never let me go too far. Jay Baruchel
vanity handsome next
It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman. Joseph Joubert
vanity guy comfort
I'm not sure if guys are supposed to read Vanity Fair. I feel very metrosexual with it but am not sure it's in my comfort zone. Mohsin Hamid
vanity desire should
Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.
vanity giants vulnerable
The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions.
vanity opponents free-will
The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity.
vanity littles virtue
Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.