Quotes about van
vanity honest shame
One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity. Friedrich Nietzsche
vanity morality hardest
Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many a morality.
vanity important lines
Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very, very blurred. Jason Patric
vanity contentment looks
When you are disposed to be vain of your mental acquirements, look up to those who are more accomplished than yourself, that you may be fired with emulation; but when you feel dissatisfied with your circumstances, look down on those beneath you, that you may learn contentment. Hannah More
vanity larger-than-life problem
I guess I'm larger than life. That's my problem. Bette Davis
vanity age three
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. Bill Vaughan
vanity potency motive
Vanity is a motive of immense potency. Bertrand Russell
vanity wish trouble
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.
vanity people would-be
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.
vanity satisfaction needs
What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power.
vanity hypocrisy modesty
There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery. Jean de la Bruyere
vanity never-let-me-go narcissism
My vanity and narcissism will never let me go too far. Jay Baruchel
vanity betray manage
It's always our touches of vanity that manage to betray us. Christopher Fry
vanity ifs who-you-are
If you have to tell them who you are, you aren't anybody. Gregory Peck
vanity giving stories
The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure. Jackie DeShannon
vanity unbearable wounds
That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
vanity giving generosity
Generosity is the vanity of giving.
vanity giving may
Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them.
vanity littles speak
We speak little if not egged on by vanity.
vanity doe virtue
If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.
vanity giving liberality
What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving.
vanity people insufferable
What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.
vanity people malice
People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.
vanity coins flattery
Flattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity.
vanity littles doe
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
vanity funeral honor
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
vanity virtue company
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
vanity littles virtue
Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.
vanity enemy judgment
The judgments our enemies make about us come nearer to the truth than those we make about ourselves.
vanity air mind
Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind.
vanity flattery currents
Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.
vanity three mixtures
Clemency, which we make a virtue of, proceeds sometimes from vanity, sometimes from indolence, often from fear, and almost always from a mixture of all three.
vanity laughing house
One thing House needs Wilson for is vanity. He needs someone to laugh at his jokes. Hugh Laurie