Vanity Quotes - page 17

To have access to literature, world literature, was to escape the prison of national vanity, of philistinism, of compulsory provincialism, of inane schooling, of imperfect destinies and bad luck. (Susan Sontag)
Since the time of the cavemen, man has glorified himself, has made himself divine, and his monstrous vanity has caused human catastrophe. View quote
Jean Arp
Since the time of the cavemen, man has glorified himself, has made himself divine, and his monstrous vanity has caused human catastrophe. Art has collaborated in this false development. I find this concept of art which has sustained man's vanity to be loathsome. View quote
Jean Arp
Even the wisest of mankind cannot live by reason alone; pure arrogant reason, denying the claims of prejudice (which commonly are also the claims of conscience), leads to a wasteland of withered hopes and crying loneliness, empty of God and man: the wilderness in which Satan tempted Christ was not more dreadful than the arid expanse of intellectual vanity deprived of tradition and intuition, where modern man is tempted by his own pride. View quote
Russell Kirk
I'm not motivated by vanity, glory or the quest for power. View quote
Michele Bachmann
The ant's a centaur in his dragon world. Pull down thy vanity, it is not man Made courage, or made order, or made grace, Pull down thy vanity, I say pull down. Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry, Pull down thy vanity, Paquin pull down The green casque has outdone your elegance. View quote
Ezra Pound
The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on. View quote
Alexander Pope
Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
Oh, Vanity of vanities How wayward the decrees of Fate are How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
I do think about aging. I have those moments of panic and vanity, but life keeps getting better, so you can't worry about it too much. View quote
Jennifer Garner
Oh this is not that sweet love Own companion to the dove; But a wild and wandering thing, Varying as the lights that fling Radiance o'er his peacock's wing. I do weep, that Love should be Ever linked with Vanity. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)
I believe that the grand secret of attraction is, that the details always turn on what is present to our fears, or gratifying to our vanity. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
There must be some deep-rooted anti-social principle in every man's nature, so dearly does he love aught that separates him from his kind; or is it but one of the many shapes taken by that mental kaleidoscope, vanity, the varying and the glittering, the desire of distinction, sinking into that of notice? View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
My spell is done, my prize is won; True love! thou hast equal none; True love! who could choose for thee Gold or gems or vanity? Where is the spell whose charm will prove, Like the spell of thy charm, true love? View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
It is the mistake of a coxcomb, whose experience of affection is all to come-if it ever comes-to say that women are won by mere good looks. Though it does not owe its birth to them. Gratitude and Vanity are the nurses that rock the cradle of Love. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Methinks we must have known some former state More glorious than our present, and the heart Is haunted with dim memories, shadows left By past magnificence; and hence we pine With vain aspirings, hopes that fill the eyes With bitter tears for their own vanity. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Who shall say The love of genius is a common thing, Such as the many feel-half selfishness, Half vanity?-for genius is divine, And, like a god, doth turn its dwelling-place Into a temple; and the heart redeem'd By its fine influence is immortal shrine For love's divinity. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
-vanity, like all social vices, craves for novelty . View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
[Julian - disguised] Oh, jealousy is but A shadow cast from vanity, which lain Would take the shape of love to hide its own Selfish deformity ! View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement. In war a physical force is to be created, and it is the executive will which is to direct it. In war the public treasures are to be unlocked, and it is the executive hand which is to dispense them. In war the honors and emoluments of office are to be multiplied; and it is the executive patronage under which they are to be enjoyed. It is in war, finally, that laurels are to be gathered, and it is the executive brow they are to encircle. The strongest passions, and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venial love of fame, are all in conspiracy against the desire and duty of peace. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. . . . He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic. (Samuel Johnson)
That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments. View quote
Samuel Johnson
I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught. View quote
Jackie Collins
The infirmity of human intelligence is short sight. In too many cases, the wiseacres are dunces of a sort, who lose sight of the simplicity of things, and stifle and obscure it with formulae and trivialities. It is the small things that one learns from books, not the great ones. And even while they are saying that they do not wish for war they are doing all they can to perpetuate it. They nourish national vanity and the love of supremacy by force. "We alone," they say, each behind his shelter, "we alone are the guardians of courage and loyalty, of ability and good taste!" View quote
Henri Barbusse
O vanity, mislead no more! View quote
Louisa May Alcott