Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fernando Pessoa

We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of the futility of all effort and the vanity of all plans.

Francis Quarles

Too much is a vanity; enough is a feast.

Anna Jameson

Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.

Gary Smith

Vanguard won't let you get away with anything.

Michelle Shocked

I'm one of the few that comes from this vantage point: I never tried to get a record deal.

Nigella Lawson

There is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity.

Nicolas Chamfort

The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.

Nicolas Chamfort

Egotism is the tongue of vanity.

Nick Vujicic

At my funeral, if one said, 'Nick was a generous person,' trust me I won't be doing cartwheels in my coffin. Recognition from people is never and never will be a goal. Some people strive for that respect or honor. Living a life to just reach for the position and status is vanity and sin.

Nigel Kennedy

Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time.

Myrtle Reed

Conceit is lovable and unconcealed ; vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.

Myrtle Reed

It is personal vanity of the most flagrant type which intrudes itself, unasked, into other people's affairs. There are few of us who do not feel capable of ordering the daily lives of others, down to the most minute detail.

Oscar Wilde

If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that...for that, I would give my SOUL for that.

Michael Zaslow

My vanity is not dead. I laugh when I see pictures of myself as I am now-maybe so I won't cry, but just because it is really funny how much I've changed.

Michel de Montaigne

It is in vain that we get upon stilts, for once on them, it is still with our legs that we must walk. And on the highest throne in the world we are still sitting on our own ass.

Mark Twain

He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.

Mason Cooley

Vanity well fed is benevolent. Vanity hungry is spiteful.

John Milton

Vanity is definitely my favorite sin.

Norm MacDonald

The vanity of being asked advice often makes us confirm the opinion of those that consult us.

Miguel de Cervantes

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

Miguel de Cervantes

For let us women be never so ill-favored, I imagine that we are always delighted to hear ourselves called handsome.

Miguel de Cervantes

A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity.

Neil Kinnock

The unforgivable political sin is vanity; the killer diet is sour grapes.

Theodore Parker

That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving.

Theodore Bikel

If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to.

Margaret Halsey

The only way not to worry about the race problem is to be doing something about it yourself. When you are, natural human vanity makes you feel that now the thing is in good hands.

Michele Bachmann

I'm not motivated by vanity, glory or the quest for power.

Michael Lindsay-Hogg

I completely trust Gloria Vanderbilt. I have always found her very honest.

Oscar Wilde

Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

Socrates

Through your rags I see your vanity.

Danny Boyle

What you do is take the power [popularity] gives you - which is very temporary and minor but significant - and use it. The danger is that you use it on a vanity project that no one wants to watch.

Jack Nicholson

I have a lot of vanity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.