Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret Deland

moral vanity is the snare of good people.

Oscar Wilde

Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

Oscar Wilde

If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that...for that, I would give my SOUL for that.

Mark Twain

All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics.

Mark Twain

There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

Mario Puzo

I want to tell you a story. I have no other vanity.

Paul Engle

You come to know the aches and vanities and tastes and intrigues of an entire neighborhood at a drug store.

Mary Wortley Montagu

One can never outlive one's vanity.

Martha Graham

Censorship is the height of vanity.

Michael Zaslow

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.

Michel de Montaigne

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.

Mark Twain

He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.

Christopher Fry

It's always our touches of vanity that manage to betray us.

George Santayana

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

George Santayana

We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

Jorge Luis Borges

To bless thine enemy is a good way to satisfy thy vanity.

Kenneth Clark

You have no idea what portrait painters suffer from the vanity of their sitters.

Emile M. Cioran

I try--without success--to stop finding reasons for vanity in anything. When I happen to manage it nonetheless, I feel that I no longer belong to the mortal gang. I am above everything then, above the gods themselves. Perhaps that is what death is: a sensation of great, of extreme superiority.

Henry Ward Beecher

There is nothing which vanity does not desecrate.

Henry Fielding

O vanity, how little is thy force acknowledged or thy operations discerned! How wantonly dost thou deceive mankind under different disguises! Sometimes thou dost wear the face of pity; sometimes of generosity; nay, thou hast the assurance to put on those glorious ornaments which belong only to heroic virtue.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Vanity and rudeness are seldom seen together.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites.

Jonathan Swift

Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman.

Norman Mailer

If you can change style, why stick to one style? Style is a vanity because it gives you product identification.

Mason Cooley

Vanity well fed is benevolent. Vanity hungry is spiteful.

Theodore Parker

That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving.

John Adams

Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it.

Jim Morrison

Guileless and without vanity, we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness. Jealousy we understood and thought natural--a desire to have what somebody else had; but envy was a strange, new feeling for us.

Neil Kinnock

The unforgivable political sin is vanity; the killer diet is sour grapes.

John Stott

Envy is the reverse side of a coin called vanity - Nobody is ever envious of others who is not first proud of himself.

Socrates

Through your rags I see your vanity.

Theodore Bikel

If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to.