Quotes about vanity
vanity god-love
All is vanity but to love God and serve Him. Thomas a Kempis
vanity toilets endeavor
With what hope can we endeavor to persuade the ladies that the time spent at the toilet is lost in vanity. Samuel Johnson
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.
vanity advice instruction
There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own beneficence.
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 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 half sticks
Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business. Thomas Chandler Haliburton
vanity four fifth
A coxcomb is four-fifths affectation and one-fifth vanity.
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 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 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 self self-justification
There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification. Storm Jameson
vanity mind debt
Everybody in Vanity Fair must have remarked how well those live who are comfortably and thoroughly in debt; how they deny themselves nothing; how jolly and easy they are in their minds. William Makepeace Thackeray
vanity unseen spurs
Vanity is often the unseen spur.
vanity looks preacher
All is vanity, look you; and so the preacher is vanity too.
vanity wicked foolish
Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
vanity fairs
All is vanity, nothing is fair.