Famous Quotes & Sayings

Horace Walpole

It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity.

Vanity is as old as the mammoth.

Veronica Roth

Everything - our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles - is meant to help us forget ourselves and to protect us from vanity, greed and envy, which are just forms of selfishness. If we have little, and want for little, and we are all equal, we envy no one.

John Cleese

Aping urbanity, Oozing with vanity, Plump as a manatee, Faking humanity, Intellectual inanity, Journalistic calamity, Fox Noise insanity, You're a profanity, Hannity

I want to go to Vancouver in 2010. I already want to win the gold.

Mark Twain

All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics.

Berthold Auerbach

The vain being is the really solitary being.

Thomas a Kempis

All is vanity but to love God and serve Him.

Pema Chodron

Fear itself is the vanguard of wisdom

Rafe Spall

Theres nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.

Lewis B. Smedes

Because arrogance is born in personal vanity, arrogant people are driven without mercy. They can never get enough power to fill the soul's needs or enough respect to overcome the fear that they deserve less than they are getting.

Kanye West

The idea of Kanye and vanity are like, synonymous.

Logan Pearsall Smith

One's own vanities and humiliations I find a delicious subject for conversation. Things said of me behind my back I don't enjoy, and don't listen to them.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't; It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them.

Louisa May Alcott

Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair.

Joseph Hall

I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.

Henry Ward Beecher

There is nothing which vanity does not desecrate.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity.

John Lancaster Spalding

The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope.

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.

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.

Dennis Lehane

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 know this well...Vanity and dishonesty may be vices, but they're also the first forms of protection I ever knew.

Alexander Smith

Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its services a kind word or an approving smile.

William Shakespeare

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

Aeschylus

They who prosper take on airs of vanity.

Adam Smith

The necessaries of life occasion the great expense of the poor. They find it difficult to get food, and the greater part of their little revenue is spent in getting it. The luxuries and vanities of life occasion the principal expense of the rich, and a magnificent house embellishes and sets off to the best advantage all the other luxuries and vanities which they possess ... It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.

Adam Smith

The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.

Abraham Cowley

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.