Vanity Quotes - page 18

Rome took all the vanity out of me for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair. (Louisa May Alcott)
Vanity is great motivation, to be fair. View quote
Matthew McConaughey
If not for our excessive vanity and our over-active imaginations, novelists might be unusually difficult to deceive. View quote
William Gibson
The prize of individualism--its goal--is self-actualization, which is only another name for vanity. We do not admire men for achieving self-actualization; we admire self-actualization when its end result is a boon to humanity. View quote
Matthew Stover
VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
I've personally never wanted to be 'the babe', and refuse to let vanity get in the way of my acting because I don't see my job as being a beautiful person. View quote
Zooey Deschanel
Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it. View quote
Lady Gaga
In my more pompous moments I like to think of myself as a writer rather than a humorist, but I suppose that's merely the vanity of advancing age. View quote
S. J. Perelman
Most times with vanity projects, publishers don't believe in the work; they just believe in the name. View quote
Gerard Way
Take away ambitions and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots. View quote
Seneca
When blessed with wealth, let them withdraw from the competition of vanity and be modest, retiring from ostentation, and not be the slaves of fashion. (William Wilberforce)
On top of that, insufferable vanity has convinced humans that nature has been made only for them, as though the sun, a huge body four hundred and thirty-four times as large as the earth, had been lit only to ripen our crab apples and cabbages. View quote
Cyrano de Bergerac
Your national greatness, swelling vanity your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy -- a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. View quote
Frederick Douglass
Good-breeding is opposed to selfishness, vanity, or pride. View quote
Stonewall Jackson
Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge. View quote
Iris Murdoch
Man alone consumes more flesh than all the other animals together devour; he is, then, the greatest destroyer; and this more from custom than necessity. Instead of using with moderation the blessings which are offered him, instead of disposing of them with equity, instead of increasing them in proportion as he destroys, the rich man places all his glory in consuming, in one day, at his table, as much as would be necessary to support many families: he equally abuses both animals and his fellow-creatures, some of whom remain starving and languishing in misery, and labour only to satisfy his immoderate appetite, and more insatiable vanity, and who, by destroying others through wantonness, destroys himself by excess. Nevertheless, man, like some other animals, might live on vegetables. View quote
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity. View quote
George Washington
In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanity. View quote
Robert Browning
Dull headed I am, you are the very progenitor of cupid Forgiving my countless sins please save me... I am the sinner and you remove the sins on me Anger, vanity, arrogance I am filled with these Make me fearless removing my worries False shadowy forms engross me You are the redeemer to those who seek refuge Worst criminal I am you remove hurdle rocks that huge Bewildered I am you save me as you foresee Charlatan I am and you are without vanity Unlucky I am you are lord of wealth divine Can I comprehend past or future of mine? Oh Purandara Vittala Raya my father Perpetually you save me without bother. View quote
Purandara Dasa
Rama, Rama, Rama chant, this grand Lord's name do not forget in mind With nine orifices this jam-packed city Five kings ruling there with all majesty They guard this body with all the vanity Do not get spoiled believing this mendacity. This insecure body, just a bony cage Tightly wrapped with a cover of skin Full of sewage, slush, and germs within Do not rely on this sewn up cartilage Respected by the recurring Brahmas and celestials Take Hari's name with His supreme credentials Pray the feet of Purandara Vittala And get rid of the fear of the evils all. View quote
Purandara Dasa
There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life. (Lady Mary Wortley Montagu)
One can never outlive one's vanity. View quote
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Ego is hilarious - especially the vanity of a comedian. As soon as you see one start worrying about how cool he is or about how many stadiums he can fill, he stops being funny. View quote
Ricky Gervais
She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth. View quote
Christina Rossetti
We must admit the vanity of our false distinctions among men and learn to find our own advancement in the search for the advancement of others. View quote
Robert F. Kennedy