Quotes about vanity
vanity doe action
Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions? Denis Diderot
vanity desire given
I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.
vanity modesty sometimes
Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty. Anna Jameson
vanity looks television
If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television. It doesn't do you any favours in terms of showing you what you look like and what your emotions are. Clive Anderson
vanity television lost
If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television.
vanity office fool
Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office. Aesop
vanity matter chess
Chess is a matter of vanity. Alexander Alekhine
vanity care individual
Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species. Aldous Huxley
vanity hands america
Today, America poses a threat to peace and security in the world. Therefore, the slogan "Death to America" is no longer used only by our people. Today, you see throughout the world people setting fire to the effigy of the American president and chanting the slogan "Death to America." This is because of the American regime's exaggerated demands, its arrogance, its vanity, and its desire to control, and because it is a pawn in the hands of the Zionists. Ali Khamenei
vanity insightful improvement
Vanity prevents improvement
vanity vain given
And not a vanity is given in vain. Alexander Pope
vanity knows ifs
If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity. Don DeLillo
vanity upset ordinary
Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity. Dylan Thomas
vanity done vexation
No; for instead of delivering myself up to the full enjoyment of the as others do, I am always troubling my head about how I could produce the same effect upon canvas; and as that can never be done, it is mere vanity and vexation of spirit. Anne Bronte
vanity actors toilets
I've been on sets where the turnaround is so fast and the budget so small that the actors have been asked to speed things up and save money by changing in the public toilets. There's no room for vanity at times like that. It's the best way: get on with it! Anna Friel
vanity doe comedy
I feel like all comedy does require a lack of vanity, but multi-cam, especially. Anna Faris
vanity people speech
Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington. David Frum
vanity political politics
All politicians have vanity. Some wear it more gently than others. David Steel
vanity needs amelie
When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more. Amelie Nothomb
vanity fool ass
VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass. Ambrose Bierce
vanity eggs hens
They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
vanity mortification dies
Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification. Alice Thomas Ellis
vanity desire attention
The nicest gifts are those left, nameless and quiet, unburdened with love, or vanity, or the desire for attention. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
vanity dignity vulnerable
Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable. Alfred de Musset
vanity cowardice source
That was the source of my vanity and my cowardice: always I believed everyone was watching me. Andre Dubus
vanity mirrors looks
So when I look in the mirror I'm driven by both vanity and fear. Andy Whitfield
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 glasses curiosity
I don't need glasses, but I've just reached the age where curiosity is greater than vanity. Red Skelton
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 self self-justification
There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification. Storm Jameson
vanity skins dirt
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. Toni Morrison