Quotes about vanity
vanity enemy judgment
The judgments our enemies make about us come nearer to the truth than those we make about ourselves. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
vanity air mind
Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind.
vanity flattery currents
Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.
vanity three mixtures
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.
vanity laughing house
One thing House needs Wilson for is vanity. He needs someone to laugh at his jokes. Hugh Laurie
vanity self impossible
It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love. Horace Walpole
vanity important lines
Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very, very blurred. Jason Patric
vanity people feelings
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. F. Scott Fitzgerald
vanity
Quomondo sedet sola civitas. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity. Evelyn Waugh
vanity contentment looks
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
vanity faults littles
There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little.
vanity gossip behind-my-back
One's own vanities and humiliations I find a delicious subject for conversation. Things said of me behind my back I don't enjoy, and don't listen to them. Logan Pearsall Smith
vanity stupidity ifs
It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't; It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them. Lucy Maud Montgomery
vanity rome despair
Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair. Louisa May Alcott
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 people soul
Because arrogance is born in personal vanity, arrogant people are driven without mercy. They can never get enough power to fill the soul's needs or enough respect to overcome the fear that they deserve less than they are getting. Lewis B. Smedes
vanity conventions renounce
You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion. Gustav Mahler
vanity literature conviction
I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity. Gustave Flaubert
vanity curiosity motive
I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity. Gilbert K. Chesterton
vanity despair doctrine
The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope. John Lancaster Spalding
vanity together mets
I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together. Joseph Hall
vanity ideas
The idea of Kanye and vanity are like, synonymous. Kanye West
vanity drug taste
You come to know the aches and vanities and tastes and intrigues of an entire neighborhood at a drug store. Paul Engle
vanity
One can never outlive one's vanity. Mary Wortley Montagu
vanity want stories
I want to tell you a story. I have no other vanity. Mario Puzo
vanity disaster masters
I'll destroy you. I am the master of disaster. Muhammad Ali
vanity giving soul
If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that...for that, I would give my SOUL for that. Oscar Wilde
vanity laughing cry
My vanity is not dead. I laugh when I see pictures of myself as I am now-maybe so I won't cry, but just because it is really funny how much I've changed. Michael Zaslow
vanity thrones sitting
It is in vain that we get upon stilts, for once on them, it is still with our legs that we must walk. And on the highest throne in the world we are still sitting on our own ass. Michel de Montaigne
vanity giving advice
He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person. Mark Twain
vanity morality asks
Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right? Martin Luther King, Jr.