Vanity Quotes · Page 25

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

— Neil Kinnock

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

— Julian Casablancas

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Theodore Bikel

“An ego always looks at his face in the mirror never in his eyes.”

— Amit Kalantri

I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the Lord. (Psalms 31:6)

— Bible

“Ecclesiastes would be quite unbearable were it not for Heavens eternity and its citizens". ~R. Alan Woods [2013]”

— R. Alan Woods

This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave; it is but misery, vanity, and folly;…

— Francois Fenelon

Most of the time, the artists are not supposed to wear the fashion. It is always seen as a vanity. But I…

— Marina Abramovic

I think it's good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and…

— Peter Coyote

Let us, therefore, foresake the vanity of the crowd and their false teachings, and turn back to the word delivered to us…

— Polycarp

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the…

— James Madison

People think they can tame the earth. How absurd! The vanity of human wishes is endless. It is more fun to dance…

— Frederick Lenz

either you are so underdeveloped that you can't see all that you can do, or you won't sacrifice your ease, your vanity,…

— Leo Tolstoy

Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Only then man will raise his eyes to the sun that caressed with its rays so many millennia of frustration and anguish,…

— Sorin Cerin

Atrocities are now shown in 30-second bites. Hardcore artistic horror is an expression of hating your neighbour. The gruesome imagination feeds on…

— Calvin Seerveld

The need for sociability induce man to be in touch with his fellow men. However, this need might not ("ne saurait", Fr.)…

— African Spir

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance. In this…

— Friedrich Schiller

“I reach for the napkin, and as I do I catch sight of my hands. They are knobby and crooked, thin-skinned, and—like…

— Sara Gruen

The stifled hum of midnight, when traffic has lain down to rest, and the chariot wheels of Vanity, still rolling here and…

— Thomas Carlyle

Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent…

— Arthur Helps

Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people…

— Stella Blum

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.

— Jean de la Bruyere

“Besides, nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.”

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Joseph Joubert

When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more.

— Amelie Nothomb

Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon.

— John Doerr

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

— Anonymous

It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.

— Anonymous

--nor had I understood til then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others

— Philip Roth

I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together.

— Joseph Hall

Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“And in the sin of wanting always to be right, the punishment is knowing it isn't possible.”

— Jennifer Clarvoe

The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.

— Alexander von Humboldt

“...most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same.”

— Idries Shah

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

— Gustav Mahler

He that would soothe sorrow must not argue on the vanity of the most deceitful hopes.

— Walter Scott

“Every men wanted to be his friend and every woman wanted to be in his bed”

— Dee Remy