Vanity Quotes

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Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification. — Alice Thomas Ellis
I think what kind of destroyed the franchise, in some ways, was ego and vanity. When that element of ego and vanity that's sitting there… — Joe Flanigan
I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's… — Richard Greenberg
Praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers. — John Berryman
Egocentricity: The vanity that makes you wonder what people are thinking about you when they are really wondering what you are thinking about them. — Evan Esar
Bodybuilding is men on a stage in their underwear wearing brown paint showing other men their muscles. It is training for appearance only, and at… — Mark Rippetoe
Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity? — Bantu Holomisa
Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth. — Nouman Ali Khan
There are some who wish to learn for no other reason than that they may be looked upon as learned, which is ridiculous vanity ...… — Bernard of Clairvaux
Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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… — Robert Schumann
If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to. — Theodore Bikel
To write well and speak well is mere vanity if one does not live well. — Bridget of Sweden
An Actor is an interpreter of other men's words, often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare not, a craftsman,… — Alec Guinness
To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare… — Stendhal
Live according to the ethics of excellence, and you can always stand proud. Pride - not vanity, but dignity and self-respect - should carry a… — Price Pritchett
Every sinew in my body came together in one perfect whole. But those who have ever experienced that feeling, and it doesn't happen very often,… — Cooper Cronk
You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you… — Dave Schulthise
It is thus religion infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity and fanaticism: if he has a heated imagination it drives him on… — Baron d'Holbach
Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion take their daily birth From all the fuming vanities of earth. — William Wordsworth

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