Vanity Quotes
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Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.
Virginia Woolf -
Ecclesiastes said that "all is vanity," Most modern preachers say the same, or show it By their examples of true Christianity: In short, all know, or very short may know it.
Lord Byron
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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.
George Eliot -
Every sinew in my body came together in one perfect whole. But those who have ever experienced that feeling, and it doesn't happen very often, will tell you it's in a whole other place of experience from the usual ego or vanity that drives my game. So I'm not afraid to own it for what it was.
Cooper Cronk -
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.
Anne Bronte -
Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
A man who can laugh at himeself delivers all men from the burden of their vanity.
Elie Faure -
Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.
Blaise Pascal
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its own. It proclaims itself for what it is.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas -
When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.
Eugene O'Neill -
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.
Tom Hardy -
The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas -
Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad.
Eric Ries
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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.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
The vanity of being asked advice often makes us confirm the opinion of those that consult us.
Norm MacDonald -
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.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Vanity is so anchored in the heart of man that a soldier, a soldier's servant, a cook, a porter brags and wishes to have his admirers. Even philosophers wish for them. Those who write against vanity want to have the glory of having written well; and those who read it desire the glory of having read it. I who write this have perhaps this desire, and perhaps those who will read it.
Blaise Pascal -
Vanity is easily forgiven, for we are all vain, and even as we laugh at the weakness of others we feel that their vanity has touched the responding chord of our own.
Arthur Lynch -
There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.
William Shakespeare
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Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad.
Salvador Dali -
Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?
Seneca the Younger -
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.
Blaise Pascal -
All the excesses, all the violence, and all the vanity of great men, come from the fact that they know not what they are: it being difficult for those who regard themselves at heart as equal with all men... For this it is necessary for one to forget himself, and to believe that he has some real excellence above them, in which consists this illusion that I am endeavoring to discover to you.
Blaise Pascal