Quotes about vanity
vanity enemy dignity
Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity. Sophie Swetchine
vanity moral kind
Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety. Stephen Young
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 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 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 heaven earth
In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanity Robert Browning
vanity glasses curiosity
I don't need glasses, but I've just reached the age where curiosity is greater than vanity. Red Skelton
vanity doubt majority
The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith. T. S. Eliot
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 modesty sometimes
Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty. Anna Jameson
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
vanity age generations
Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies.
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 clothes envy
Everything - our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles - is meant to help us forget ourselves and to protect us from vanity, greed and envy, which are just forms of selfishness. If we have little, and want for little, and we are all equal, we envy no one. Veronica Roth
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.