Vanity Quotes
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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
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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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No; for instead of delivering myself up to the full enjoyment of the as others do, I am always troubling my head about how I could produce the same effect upon canvas; and as that can never be done, it is mere vanity and vexation of spirit.
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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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Egotism is the tongue of vanity.
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The French courage proceeds from vanity...
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There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.
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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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It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled.
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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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Vanity is both a great motivator and a great deceiver.
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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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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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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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Nothing seduces vanity like the word "help".
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The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood works, is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy, that it often dupes itself.
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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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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!
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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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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 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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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.
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Vanity is not having facelifts if you're ugly. Those people who say: 'Oh, I'd never dream of having anything done!' That's rude. It's rude, to other people, to not try and look your best; to not try and stir things up, to not reinvent... or just invent... it's one's duty to not get stuffy.
