Quotes about van
vanity giving may
Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
vanity self impossible
It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love. Horace Walpole
vanity people feelings
If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them. F. Scott Fitzgerald
vanity
Quomondo sedet sola civitas. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity. Evelyn Waugh
vanity lust female
The joker in the deck of lesbian fidelity is female vanity: no woman of fifty is going to undress in front of a woman of twenty no matter how much she might lust for her. Florence King
vanity filling-up want
By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it. Florence Nightingale
vanity worst hardest
I never understand how writers can succumb to vanity - what you work the hardest on is usually the worst. Flannery O'Connor
vanity purpose virtue
Purpose without virtue is vanity. Fernando Torres
vanity mind vexation
Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation. Helen Keller
vanity betray manage
It's always our touches of vanity that manage to betray us. Christopher Fry
vanity contempt behinds
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman. Friedrich Nietzsche
vanity charming
I was good at being charming, one of my very few vanities. Jeff Lindsay
vanity weight kind
I don't really lift weights. It's kind of a vanity thing that I don't get into. Jeremy London
vanity reason quicksand
Vanity is the quicksand of reason. George Sand
vanity vices slave
Vanity is the most despotic and iniquitous of masters, and I can never be the slave of my own vices.
vancouver population grew
I have a lot of Japanese friends: I grew up in Vancouver, and there's this huge Japanese population over there. Grimes
vanity ifs who-you-are
If you have to tell them who you are, you aren't anybody. Gregory Peck
vanity soul forget
Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul. Fernando Pessoa