Vanity Quotes
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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.
Karan Johar -
It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.
Oscar Wilde
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.
Blaise Pascal -
Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.
Jane Austen -
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.
Blaise Pascal -
Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
Victor Hugo -
Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.
Taylor Swift -
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.
Blaise Pascal -
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.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel -
What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.
Blaise Pascal -
Through your rags I see your vanity.
Socrates -
Those Women who boast the Affections of their Admirers, have a greater share of Vanity than Love.
Eliza Haywood
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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!
Anna Friel -
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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry.
William Hazlitt -
How heroic to be able to suppress one's vanity to the extent of confessing that the game is too hard.
Alice James -
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.
Bernard of Clairvaux -
It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live than to be loved by them; and this not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.
Philip James Bailey
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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.
Andy Fairweather Low Amen Corner -
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.
Albert Einstein -
For some natures, changing their opinions is just as much a requirement of cleanliness as changing their clothes: for others, however, it is merely a requirement of vanity.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau