Decree Quote by William Makepeace Thackeray

Ah vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of fate are, How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

For man, the vanity of vanities represents first of all solidarity with his own universe, and this vanity is mans Salvation, the way through…

— Sorin Cerin

Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others; what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain we should…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Fate controls only the weak, Your Highness. The strong mould the providence the want

— Amish Tripathi

Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.

— Edmund Burke

“Such is the sleight of hand by which we juggle with ourselves, and change our very weaknesses into stanch and most magnanimous virtues!”

— Charles Dickens

There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill management makes…

— Jonathan Swift

Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an…

— John Adams

Vanity of vanities… all is vanity.’ You kill yourself to get to the grave. Especially you kill yourself to get to the grave before…

— Jack Kerouac

“I sometimes, in my sprightly moments, consider myself, in my great chair at school, as some dictator at the head of a common-wealth. In…

— John Adams

Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said more than three thousand years ago.

— Paulo Coelho