Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean de la Bruyere

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.

Jay Baruchel

My vanity and narcissism will never let me go too far.

Joseph Joubert

It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.

Mohsin Hamid

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.

Julian Casablancas

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Generosity is the vanity of giving.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We speak little if not egged on by vanity.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Flattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The judgments our enemies make about us come nearer to the truth than those we make about ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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.

Hugh Laurie

One thing House needs Wilson for is vanity. He needs someone to laugh at his jokes.

Horace Walpole

It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love.

Jackie DeShannon

The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.

Muhammad Ali

I'll destroy you. I am the master of disaster.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?

Miguel de Unamuno

What is vanity but the longing to survive?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!

The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are coarse; we need women who are kind. There enough women are rude; we need women who are refined. We have enough women of fame and fortune; we need women of faith. We have enough greed; we need more goodness. We have enough vanity; we need more virtue. We have enough popularity; we need more purity.