Quotes about van
vanity literature conviction
I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity. Gustave Flaubert
vanity curiosity motive
I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity. Gilbert K. Chesterton
vanity despair doctrine
The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope. John Lancaster Spalding
vanity gossip behind-my-back
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. Logan Pearsall Smith
vanity doubt majority
The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith. T. S. Eliot
vanity parent house
My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read. Richard Avedon
vanity world true-value
The churchyard is the market place where all things are rated at their true value, and those who are approaching it talk of the world and its vanities with a wisdom unknown before. Richard Baxter
vanity stupidity
Stupidity talks, vanity acts. Victor Hugo
vanity people want
No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you're better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can. Thomas More
vanity vexation impossible
It was needless, after this, to say that all was vanity and vexation of spirit; for it is impossible to derive happiness from the company of those whom we deprive of happiness. Thomas Paine
vanity age generations
Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies.
vanity self self-justification
There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification. Storm Jameson
vanity toilets endeavor
With what hope can we endeavor to persuade the ladies that the time spent at the toilet is lost in vanity. Samuel Johnson
vanity evil degradation
Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very lightly uttered, and once uttered are sullenly supported.
vanity advice instruction
There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own beneficence.
vanity enemy dignity
Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity. Sophie Swetchine
vanity people littles
Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things. Stendhal
vanity sainthood may
The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away. Ramakrishna
vanity unattractive males
Theres nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity. Rafe Spall
vans headlights stills
I put headlights in Ford vans. I still drive a Ford. James McBride
vanity moral kind
Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety. Stephen Young
vanity healthy looks
I have a healthy sense of vanity. I like to look good for myself, which is what a lot of women say. I want to stay fit. Thomas Haden Church
vanity compliment court
Guard against that vanity which courts a compliment, or is fed by it. Thomas Chalmers
vanity half sticks
Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business. Thomas Chandler Haliburton
vanity four fifth
A coxcomb is four-fifths affectation and one-fifth vanity.
vanity clothes envy
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. Veronica Roth
vanity ideas
The idea of Kanye and vanity are like, synonymous. Kanye West
vanity doubt curiosity
Be neat, Philothea; let nothing be negligent about you. It is a kind of contempt of those with whom we converse, to frequent their company in uncomely apparel; but, at the same time, avoid all affectation, vanity, curiosity, or levity in your dress. Keep yourself always, as much as possible, on the side of plainness and modesty, which, without doubt, is the greatest ornament of beauty, and the best excuse for the want of it. Saint Francis de Sales
vanity evil soul
He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth. Saint Augustine
vanity secret chiefs
The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
vanity emulation folly
Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.
vanity atmosphere conceit
A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it.
vanity pity easy
It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled. Willa Cather