Vanity Quotes

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I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can… — Jackie Collins
Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure… — Blaise Pascal
What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive it! — Edwin Balmer
The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood works, is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy, that it… — John Calvin
Those years, months, weeks, days, and hours, that are not filled up with God, with Christ, with grace, and with duty, will certainly be filled… — Thomas Brooks
And I have yet to find one single individual who has attained conspicuous success in bringing down enemy aeroplanes who can be said to be… — Eddie Rickenbacker
Nothing makes a man more aware of his capabilities and of his limitations than those moments when he must push aside all the familiar defenses… — Robert S. Johnson
The smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Selfdistrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his protracted existence. — Eddie Rickenbacker
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Vanity Fair has but two major articles in its editorial creed: first, to believe in the progress and promise of American life, and, second, to… — Frank Crowninshield
The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical… — Pierre de Coubertin
In America the taint of sectarianism lies broad upon the land. Not content with acknowledging the supremacy as the Diety, and with erecting temples in… — James F. Cooper
Do not confuse understanding with a larger vocabulary, sacred writings are beneficial in stimulating desire for inward realization, if one stanza at a time is… — Sri Yukteswar Giri
Everyone in Annawadi talks like this: 'Oh, I will make my child a doctor, a lawyer, and he will make us rich'. It's vanity, nothing… — Katherine Boo
The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The Jews could be put down very plausibly as the most unpleasant race ever heard of. As commonly encountered they lack any of the qualities… — H. L. Mencken
That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments.... — Samuel Johnson
Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from… — Jean de la Bruyere
I want to tell you a story. I have no other vanity. — Mario Puzo
Do not use your energy except for a cause more noble than yourself. Such a cause cannot be found except in Almighty God Himself: to… — Ibn Hazm

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