Vanity Quotes

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A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist in the same… — Samuel Johnson
The stifled hum of midnight, when traffic has lain down to rest, and the chariot wheels of Vanity, still rolling here and there through distant… — Thomas Carlyle
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
And not a vanity is given in vain. — Alexander Pope
Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul. — Fernando Pessoa
How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired. — Blaise Pascal
What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power. — Bertrand Russell
Perhaps I have no talent, but all vanity aside - I do not believe that anyone makes an artistic attempt, no matter how small, without… — Paul Gauguin
Vanity, fear, desire, competition - all such distortions within our own egos - condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those… — Tennessee Williams
There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all. — William Saroyan
Surely in much talk there cannot choose but be much vanity. Loquacity is the fistula of the mind,--ever-running and almost incurable, let every man, therefore,… — Herbert Spencer
There are many reasons for keeping a diary: to make a note of facts that one considers important; to open one's heart, to give vent… — Alberto Moravia
Vanitas vanitatum has rung in the ears Of gentle and simple for thousands of years; The wail still is heard, yet its notes never scare… — Frederick Locker-Lampson
Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action. — William Graham Sumner
Irresponsibility, cowardice, personal vanity, whining and chaos are becoming the maxims of political action. There is a stink in Berlin - a huge one! — Edmund Stoiber
Is the artist impelled by spiritual forces, by the divine afflatus, by conscious or unconscious emulation of others? Do angles whisper in the ears of… — Walter J. Phillips
Take away a painter's vanity, said a famous landscape painter, and he will never touch a pencil again. — Walter J. Phillips
Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels. — St. Jerome
While you are still beautiful and life still woos, it is such a fine gesture of disdainful pride to jilt it. — Eugene O'Neill
The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness. — Alexander von Humboldt

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