Quotes about vanity
vanity healthy looks
I have a healthy sense of vanity. I like to look good for myself, which is what a lot of women say. I want to stay fit. Thomas Haden Church
vanity compliment court
Guard against that vanity which courts a compliment, or is fed by it. Thomas Chalmers
vanity half sticks
Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business. Thomas Chandler Haliburton
vanity four fifth
A coxcomb is four-fifths affectation and one-fifth vanity.
vanity clothes envy
Everything - our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles - is meant to help us forget ourselves and to protect us from vanity, greed and envy, which are just forms of selfishness. If we have little, and want for little, and we are all equal, we envy no one. Veronica Roth
vanity ideas
The idea of Kanye and vanity are like, synonymous. Kanye West
vanity doubt curiosity
Be neat, Philothea; let nothing be negligent about you. It is a kind of contempt of those with whom we converse, to frequent their company in uncomely apparel; but, at the same time, avoid all affectation, vanity, curiosity, or levity in your dress. Keep yourself always, as much as possible, on the side of plainness and modesty, which, without doubt, is the greatest ornament of beauty, and the best excuse for the want of it. Saint Francis de Sales
vanity evil soul
He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth. Saint Augustine
vanity secret chiefs
The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it. Samuel Johnson
vanity emulation folly
Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.
vanity atmosphere conceit
A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it.
vanity pity easy
It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled. Willa Cather
vanity proud pedants
Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity. Wilkie Collins
vanity sorrow arguing
He that would soothe sorrow must not argue on the vanity of the most deceitful hopes. Walter Scott
vanity and-love philanthropy
A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
vanity earth evening
Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion take their daily birth From all the fuming vanities of earth. William Wordsworth
vanity facts recognition
There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all. William Saroyan
vanity religion would-be
If any one phrase could gather its (religion's) universal message, that phrase would be, - All is not vanity in this Universe, whatever the appearances may suggest. William James
vanity
Vanity is as old as the mammoth.
vanity different pieces
You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by hearing the master pieces which have been produced at different periods. Robert Schumann
vanity merit opinion
We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any other person's. William Hazlitt
vanity choices idolatry
A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry.
vanity admiration driven
Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.
vanity arrogant dull
In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates.
vanity touching religion
Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish. Walter Raleigh
vanity mind debt
Everybody in Vanity Fair must have remarked how well those live who are comfortably and thoroughly in debt; how they deny themselves nothing; how jolly and easy they are in their minds. William Makepeace Thackeray
vanity unseen spurs
Vanity is often the unseen spur.
vanity looks preacher
All is vanity, look you; and so the preacher is vanity too.
vanity wicked foolish
Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
vanity fairs
All is vanity, nothing is fair.