Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The judgments our enemies make about us come nearer to the truth than those we make about ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Clemency, which we make a virtue of, proceeds sometimes from vanity, sometimes from indolence, often from fear, and almost always from a mixture of all three.

Hugh Laurie

One thing House needs Wilson for is vanity. He needs someone to laugh at his jokes.

Horace Walpole

It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.

Evelyn Waugh

Quomondo sedet sola civitas. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Florence King

The joker in the deck of lesbian fidelity is female vanity: no woman of fifty is going to undress in front of a woman of twenty no matter how much she might lust for her.

Florence Nightingale

By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.

Flannery O'Connor

I never understand how writers can succumb to vanity - what you work the hardest on is usually the worst.

Fernando Torres

Purpose without virtue is vanity.

Helen Keller

Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation.

Christopher Fry

It's always our touches of vanity that manage to betray us.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

Jeff Lindsay

I was good at being charming, one of my very few vanities.

Jeremy London

I don't really lift weights. It's kind of a vanity thing that I don't get into.

George Sand

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

George Sand

Vanity is the most despotic and iniquitous of masters, and I can never be the slave of my own vices.

Gregory Peck

If you have to tell them who you are, you aren't anybody.

Fernando Pessoa

Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.

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.

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.

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.