Quotes about vanity
vanity stupidity selfishness
The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity. Eric Hoffer
vanity hair gray
Gray hairs are death's blossoms. Friedrich Schiller
vanity water fifty
Euler calculated the force of the wheels necessary to raise the water in a reservoir ... My mill was carried out geometrically and could not raise a drop of water fifty yards from the reservoir. Vanity of vanities! Vanity of geometry! Frederick the Great
vanity insanity humanity
Aping urbanity, Oozing with vanity, Plump as a manatee, Faking humanity, Intellectual inanity, Journalistic calamity, Fox Noise insanity, You're a profanity, Hannity John Cleese
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 healthy looks
I have a healthy sense of vanity. I like to look good for myself, which is what a lot of women say. I want to stay fit. Thomas Haden Church
vanity earth evening
Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion take their daily birth From all the fuming vanities of earth. William Wordsworth
vanity facts recognition
There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all. William Saroyan
vanity religion would-be
If any one phrase could gather its (religion's) universal message, that phrase would be, - All is not vanity in this Universe, whatever the appearances may suggest. William James
vanity doubt curiosity
Be neat, Philothea; let nothing be negligent about you. It is a kind of contempt of those with whom we converse, to frequent their company in uncomely apparel; but, at the same time, avoid all affectation, vanity, curiosity, or levity in your dress. Keep yourself always, as much as possible, on the side of plainness and modesty, which, without doubt, is the greatest ornament of beauty, and the best excuse for the want of it. Saint Francis de Sales
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 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 pity easy
It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled. Willa Cather
vanity proud pedants
Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity. Wilkie Collins
vanity sorrow arguing
He that would soothe sorrow must not argue on the vanity of the most deceitful hopes. Walter Scott
vanity and-love philanthropy
A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
vanity evil soul
He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth. Saint Augustine
vanity merit opinion
We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any other person's. William Hazlitt
vanity choices idolatry
A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry.
vanity admiration driven
Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.
vanity arrogant dull
In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates.
vanity touching religion
Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish. Walter Raleigh
vanity
Vanity is as old as the mammoth.
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 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.