Vanity Quotes

840 quotes by 536 authors

Before The World Was Made If I make the lashes dark and the eyes more bright and the lips more scarlet, or ask if all… — William Butler Yeats
Vanity's ridiculous, be we all fall prey to it from time to time. — David Eddings
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
These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves away! The real God taketh heed… — Bram Stoker
The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity. — Friedrich Nietzsche
You're thinking that people don't keep up old jealousies for twenty years or so. Perhaps not. Not just primitive, brute jealousy. That means a word… — Dorothy L. Sayers
I shall stick to our vow: never, never under any circumstances, to say anything unbecoming of the other...The trouble, of course, is that most successful… — Nelson Mandela
If you spend your life sparing peopleâ€™s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you canâ€™t distinguish what should be respected in them. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Then a strange thing happened. She turned to him and smiled, and as he saw her smile every rag of anger and hurt vanity dropped… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ibn Ata' Allah said: "God may open up for you the gates of obedience, but without opening up for you the gates of acceptance. On… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi
Right now I am full of greed and vanity, so I cannot live with you like before. But may be we can meet like this.… — Ai Yazawa
Everything - our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles - is meant to help us forget ourselves and to protect us from vanity, greed and envy,… — Veronica Roth
The first step in conforming our intellect to God's truth is to die to our vanity, pride, and craving for respect from colleagues and the… — Nancy Pearcey
War makes monsters of men, you once said to me Todd. Well, so does too much knowledge. Too much knowledge of your fellow man, too… — Patrick Ness
It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. — Jane Austen
The vanity of existence is revealed in the whole form existence assumes: in the infiniteness of time and space contrasted with the finiteness of the… — Arthur Schopenhauer
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
Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches. — Abraham Verghese
I have always found that Angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise. — Aldous Huxley
A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he holds… — Benjamin Franklin

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