Vanity Quotes
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Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.
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I think if I was not in love, I would probably let myself go faster. Love gives me the vanity to continue.
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I'm not a walking fleet of vanity vans any more than I'm a walking, talking multi-star cast. I might want an entourage, but so far, it is entirely eluding me.
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.
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It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.
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One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.
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Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
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Anyone who does not see the vanity of the world is very vain himself. So who does not see it, apart from young people whose lives are all noise, diversions, and thoughts for the future? But take away their diversion and you will see them bored to extinction. Then they feel their nullity without recognizing it, for nothing could be more wretched than to be intolerably depressed as soon as one is reduced to introspection with no means of diversion.
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Irresponsibility, cowardice, personal vanity, whining and chaos are becoming the maxims of political action. There is a stink in Berlin - a huge one!
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Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.
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Rock’n’roll is vanity and I have bucketloads of that. What I don’t have much of these days is the money for a fancy car.
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Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and ... but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.
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We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are no more. Such is our vanity that the good opinion of half a dozen of the people around us gives us pleasure and satisfaction.
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How heroic to be able to suppress one's vanity to the extent of confessing that the game is too hard.
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Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respect—you don't call a man a coward or a liar lightly, but 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.
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There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is curiosity. There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others; that is vanity. There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve; that is Love.
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The individual feels the vanity of human desires and aims, and the nobility and marvelous order which are revealed in nature and in the world of thought. He feels the individual destiny as an imprisonment and seeks to experience the totality of existence as a unity full of significance.
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What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.
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Then a strange thing happened. She turned to him and smiled, and as he saw her smile every rag of anger and hurt vanity dropped from him — as though his very moods were but the outer ripples of her own, as though emotion rose no longer in his breast unless she saw fit to pull an omnipotent controlling thread.
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I've been on sets where the turnaround is so fast and the budget so small that the actors have been asked to speed things up and save money by changing in the public toilets. There's no room for vanity at times like that. It's the best way: get on with it!
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Those Women who boast the Affections of their Admirers, have a greater share of Vanity than Love.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry.
