Vanity Quotes
840 quotes by 534 authors
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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
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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
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Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity.
— Max Weber
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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
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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
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One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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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
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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
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Vanity prevents improvement
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
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... but the greatest wisdom is blinded by the glare of vanity.
— Paulo Coelho
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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
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We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of the futility of all effort and the…
— Fernando Pessoa
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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
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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
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Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
— George Sand
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Vanity Quotes
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