Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Mason Cooley

Vanity well fed is benevolent. Vanity hungry is spiteful.

Oscar Wilde

Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

Oscar Wilde

If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that...for that, I would give my SOUL for that.

Michael Zaslow

My vanity is not dead. I laugh when I see pictures of myself as I am now-maybe so I won't cry, but just because it is really funny how much I've changed.

Michel de Montaigne

It is in vain that we get upon stilts, for once on them, it is still with our legs that we must walk. And on the highest throne in the world we are still sitting on our own ass.

Mark Twain

He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.

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.

Francis Quarles

Too much is a vanity; enough is a feast.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.

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.

Jason Patric

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

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.

Jack Nicholson

I have a lot of vanity.

Bette Davis

I guess I'm larger than life. That's my problem.