Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Bierce

They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.

Alfred de Musset

Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.

Denis Diderot

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

I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.

Conan O'Brien

Vanity Fair magazine reports that former President Clinton and Al Gore haven't spoken to each other since George W. Bush's inauguration. Not only that, Bill and his wife, Hillary, haven't spoken since Richard Nixon's inauguration.

David Steel

All politicians have vanity. Some wear it more gently than others.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Muhammad Ali

I'll destroy you. I am the master of disaster.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?

Paul Engle

You come to know the aches and vanities and tastes and intrigues of an entire neighborhood at a drug store.

Mary Wortley Montagu

One can never outlive one's vanity.

Martha Graham

Censorship is the height of vanity.

Jean de la Bruyere

There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery.

Mohsin Hamid

I'm not sure if guys are supposed to read Vanity Fair. I feel very metrosexual with it but am not sure it's in my comfort zone.

Julian Casablancas

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!

The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are coarse; we need women who are kind. There enough women are rude; we need women who are refined. We have enough women of fame and fortune; we need women of faith. We have enough greed; we need more goodness. We have enough vanity; we need more virtue. We have enough popularity; we need more purity.

Margaret Deland

moral vanity is the snare of good people.

Mark Twain

All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics.

Mark Twain

There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

Jay Baruchel

My vanity and narcissism will never let me go too far.

Jackie DeShannon

The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Generosity is the vanity of giving.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We speak little if not egged on by vanity.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Flattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.