Vanities Quotes

57 quotes by 44 authors

There are a thousand flowers blossoming in spring, The magical light of the full moon in autumn; There is a breeze in summer, And snow… — Wumen Huikai
And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which… — Charles Dickens
So I want to identify, if I can, the most important thing that we discover in life. At least, it is the most important thing… — Michael Kirby
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… — Richard Baxter
After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us by vanities. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
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… — Paulo Coelho
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Do not use your energy except for a cause more noble than yourself. Such a cause cannot be found except in Almighty God Himself: to… — Ibn Hazm
Thus aged men, full loth and slow, The vanities of life forego, And count their youthful follies o'er, Till Memory lends her light no more. — Walter Scott
Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion take their daily birth From all the fuming vanities of earth. — William Wordsworth
Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession. — John Donne
My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies. — Mark Twain
Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are! — William Makepeace Thackeray
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
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. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its pleasures for his… — Charles Caleb Colton
Oh Lord, give us a sense of humor with courage to manifest it forth, so that we may laugh to shame the pomps, the vanities,… — Sean O'Casey
Yes, be different, but not for the vanities of being different. — Criss Jami
Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press. — Charles James
Why seek to embarrass [the artist] with vanities foreign to his quietness? Know you not that certain sciences require the whole man, leaving no part… — Leonardo da Vinci

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