Vanity Quotes

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Comedy mocks the vanity of visions of rational control. The person who can joke amidst a confrontation with evil, like the quick-witted Spider-Man, must be… — Peter Leithart
There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is curiosity. There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others;… — Bernard of Clairvaux
Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity. — Max Weber
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on… — Baron de Montesquieu
I'm hoping my children will save me from my vanity. If it doesn't, plastic surgery is an option... It sucks to have to grow older.… — Gwen Stefani
One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I need not print a line, nor conjure with the painter's tools to prove myself an artist ... Whilst in other spheres of labor the… — J. D. Sedding
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
Vanity prevents improvement — Ali ibn Abi Talib
... but the greatest wisdom is blinded by the glare of vanity. — Paulo Coelho
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
Weâ€™ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history â€“ that of our profound awareness of the futility of all effort and the… — Fernando Pessoa
Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious to be accepted… — Stephen Spender
It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Vanity is the quicksand of reason. — George Sand
To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special… — Emil Zatopek
Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently… — Florence Nightingale
Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the… — Helen Hunt Jackson
Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is. I… — Dennis Lehane
How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the… — Van Wyck Brooks

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