Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bette Davis

I guess I'm larger than life. That's my problem.

Bill Vaughan

Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.

Bertrand Russell

Vanity is a motive of immense potency.

Bertrand Russell

One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about.

Bertrand Russell

I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs me, nothing seems worth doing or worth having done: the only thing that I strongly feel worth while would be to murder as many people as possible so as to diminish the amount of consciousness in the world. These times have to be lived through: there is nothing to be done with them.

Bertrand Russell

What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power.

William Shakespeare

Shine out fair sun, till I have bought a glass, That I may see my shadow as I pass.

From now on, only the plainest vanilla versions will be permissible, nothing elaborate.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something that had much better be concealed; namely, that their vanity has survived themselves.

Charles Simmons

Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value. Those who impart them to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue, and religion, know their use. Those who lose them by accident or fraud know their vanity. And those who experience the difficulties and dangers of preserving them know their perplexities.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord who cannot endure vain repetitions is equally weary of vain variations.

Al Pacino

Vanity is my favourite sin.

Al Pacino

Vanity: my favorite sin.

Cherie Lunghi

I am simply not such a slave to my vanity, and I don't want to be, because as you get older you really have to start accepting the inevitable.

Charlotte Lennox

What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.

Edith Wharton

Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self depreciation.

Edith Wharton

No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.

William Shakespeare

Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others.

William Shakespeare

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

Bernard of Clairvaux

There are some who wish to learn for no other reason than that they may be looked upon as learned, which is ridiculous vanity ... Others desire to learn that they may morally instruct others, that is love. And, lastly, there are some who wish to learn that they may be themselves edified; and that is prudence.

Jane Austen

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

Jane Austen

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

Jane Austen

Vanity, not love, has been my folly.

Jason Bateman

I don't have anything to fix! I don't smoke, I don't drink, and I don't eat carbs. My life is just great now. Normal. Vanilla.

Blaise Pascal

Vanity is but the surface.

Blaise Pascal

We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are no more. Such is our vanity that the good opinion of half a dozen of the people around us gives us pleasure and satisfaction.

Blaise Pascal

There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.

Blaise Pascal

Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.

Blaise Pascal

What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.

Blaise Pascal

We are so presumptuous that we wish to be known to all the world, even to those who come after us; and we are so vain that the esteem of five or six persons immediately around us is enough to amuse and satisfy us.

Blaise Pascal

Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.

Blaise Pascal

How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.

Baruch Spinoza

It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.