Vanities Quotes

57 quotes by 44 authors

How are you to meet the swarm of foolish attachments, triflings, and undesirable inclinations which beset you? By turning sharply away, and thoroughly renouncing such… — Saint Francis de Sales
To be happy one must be (a) well fed, unhounded by sordid cares, at ease in Zion, (b) full of a comfortable feeling of superiority… — H. L. Mencken
Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies… — Bill Vaughan
Quomondo sedet sola civitas. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity. — Evelyn Waugh
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… — Tom Hanks
The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal… — Henry A. Wallace
Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows… — Tennessee Williams
It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow:… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
I went to Cal Arts and AFI, and I worked on 'Bonfire Of The Vanities.' I got this grant from the Academy to be Brian… — Douglas Rushkoff
But the fact of it was that I liked it out there, a ruin devoid of human vanities, clean of human illusions, an empty place… — Joan Didion
Vanity of vanitiesâ€¦ all is vanity.â€™ You kill yourself to get to the grave. Especially you kill yourself to get to the grave before you… — Jack Kerouac
To say! To know how to say! To know how to exist via the written voice and the intellectual image! This is all that matters… — Fernando Pessoa
One cannot bring children into a world like this. One cannot perpetuate suffering, or increase the breed of these lustful animals, who have no lasting… — Virginia Woolf
Just like that. Gone forever. They will not grow old together. They will never live on a beach by the sea, their hair turned white,… — Pete Hamill
I was good at being charming, one of my very few vanities. — Jeff Lindsay
I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not. — Lionel Shriver
Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies. — Dejan Stojanovic
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said more than three thousand years ago. — Paulo Coelho
Consider... the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary,… — H. L. Mencken
Above all you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and its vanities and its generosities, and say what your beauty… — Virginia Woolf

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