Vanity Quotes
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Is not wounded vanity the mother of all tragedies?
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Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat; it turns timidity into fierce courage, and dreadless defiance into tremulous submission; it turns thoughtlessness into foresight, and yet stills all anxiety into calm content; it makes selfishness become self – denial, and gives even to hard vanity the glance of admiring love.
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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
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The French courage proceeds from vanity...
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Egotism is the tongue of vanity.
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Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad.
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It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled.
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Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
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Vanity is both a great motivator and a great deceiver.
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You know, at 35 or at 38 or 40 you really start to see what your body could look like if you just don't do anything all winter long. So that's another motivating factor, our vanity.
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Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also.
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Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.
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But I feel vanity is a part of art and the non-vain are really non-artistic.
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Nothing seduces vanity like the word "help".
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Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many a morality.
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The vanity of being asked advice often makes us confirm the opinion of those that consult us.
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To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.
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Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.
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Vanity is so constantly solicitous of self, that even where its own claims are not interested, it indirectly seeks the aliment which it loves, by showing how little is deserved by others.
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There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.
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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.
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Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.
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What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!
