Famous Quotes & Sayings

Red Skelton

I don't need glasses, but I've just reached the age where curiosity is greater than vanity.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.

Garrison Keillor

Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.

Francois Fenelon

If we were faultless, we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate. If we were to acknowledge honestly that we have not virtue enough to bear patiently with our neighbor's weaknesses, we should show our own imperfection, and this alarms our vanity.

Henry Ward Beecher

There is nothing which vanity does not desecrate.

Henry Fielding

O vanity, how little is thy force acknowledged or thy operations discerned! How wantonly dost thou deceive mankind under different disguises! Sometimes thou dost wear the face of pity; sometimes of generosity; nay, thou hast the assurance to put on those glorious ornaments which belong only to heroic virtue.

Toni Morrison

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.

Tom Hardy

Vanity is normal in performers. Does it bother other people? All the time. But nine times out of 10, that says more about them than you.

Tom Hanks

The same way that I know that I'll never do a movie as good or as celebrated as 'Forrest Gump,' I know that I'll never do a movie as bad as 'Bonfire of the Vanities.'

Tina Fey

It's not vanity, because if you look weird, it will distract from what your trying to do. If you look as good as you can, people will be able to pay attention to what your actually saying.

Joseph Hall

I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together.

Miguel de Unamuno

What is vanity but the longing to survive?

Mario Puzo

I want to tell you a story. I have no other vanity.

Mother Teresa

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more. If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.

John Stott

Envy is the reverse side of a coin called vanity - Nobody is ever envious of others who is not first proud of himself.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that.

Friedrich Schiller

Gray hairs are death's blossoms.

Frederick the Great

Euler calculated the force of the wheels necessary to raise the water in a reservoir ... My mill was carried out geometrically and could not raise a drop of water fifty yards from the reservoir. Vanity of vanities! Vanity of geometry!

John Cleese

Aping urbanity, Oozing with vanity, Plump as a manatee, Faking humanity, Intellectual inanity, Journalistic calamity, Fox Noise insanity, You're a profanity, Hannity

John Adams

Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it.

Kenneth Clark

You have no idea what portrait painters suffer from the vanity of their sitters.

Jonathan Swift

Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman.

Norman Mailer

If you can change style, why stick to one style? Style is a vanity because it gives you product identification.

Elizabeth Smart

Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.

Eric Hoffer

The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Vanity and rudeness are seldom seen together.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites.

Emile M. Cioran

I try--without success--to stop finding reasons for vanity in anything. When I happen to manage it nonetheless, I feel that I no longer belong to the mortal gang. I am above everything then, above the gods themselves. Perhaps that is what death is: a sensation of great, of extreme superiority.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Yet some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is no danger from vanity. Solemn friends will warn them of the danger of the head's being turned by the flourish of trumpets, but they can afford to smile.

Marcus Aurelius

And yet, after all, what is posthumous fame? Altogether vanity.

Marcus Aurelius

And what after all is everlasting fame? Altogether vanity.

Jorge Luis Borges

To bless thine enemy is a good way to satisfy thy vanity.

Lisa Kleypas

Because handsomeness is always accompanied by vanity.And I suppose ugliness is accompanied by a wealth of virtues?