Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Nietzsche

Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many a morality.

Franz Kafka

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

Larry David

I'll have a vanilla... one of those vanilla bullshit things. You know, whatever you want, some vanilla bullshit latte cappa thing. Whatever you got.

Hannah More

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

There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little.

David Frum

Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.

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.

George Santayana

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

George Santayana

We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.

Jason Patric

Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very, very blurred.

George Eliot

To superficial observers his chin had too vanishing an aspect, looking as if it were being gradually reabsorbed. And it did indeed cause him some difficulty about the fit of his satin stocks, for which chins were at that time useful.

George Eliot

Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of mental make in which one of us differs from another.

Chris Stapleton

I'm a fan of polarization. If you make something that is palatable to everybody, it's like making vanilla ice cream, and I think we have enough of that.

Joseph Joubert

It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.

Robert Browning

In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanity

Red Skelton

I don't need glasses, but I've just reached the age where curiosity is greater than vanity.

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.

Garrison Keillor

Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.

Francois Fenelon

If we were faultless, we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate. If we were to acknowledge honestly that we have not virtue enough to bear patiently with our neighbor's weaknesses, we should show our own imperfection, and this alarms our vanity.

Henry Ward Beecher

There is nothing which vanity does not desecrate.

Henry Fielding

O vanity, how little is thy force acknowledged or thy operations discerned! How wantonly dost thou deceive mankind under different disguises! Sometimes thou dost wear the face of pity; sometimes of generosity; nay, thou hast the assurance to put on those glorious ornaments which belong only to heroic virtue.

Toni Morrison

guileless and without vanity,we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our own skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness.

Tom Hardy

Vanity is normal in performers. Does it bother other people? All the time. But nine times out of 10, that says more about them than you.

Tom Hanks

The same way that I know that I'll never do a movie as good or as celebrated as 'Forrest Gump,' I know that I'll never do a movie as bad as 'Bonfire of the Vanities.'

Tina Fey

It's not vanity, because if you look weird, it will distract from what your trying to do. If you look as good as you can, people will be able to pay attention to what your actually saying.

Joseph Hall

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

Miguel de Unamuno

What is vanity but the longing to survive?

Mario Puzo

I want to tell you a story. I have no other vanity.

Mother Teresa

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more. If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.

John Stott

Envy is the reverse side of a coin called vanity - Nobody is ever envious of others who is not first proud of himself.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that.