Vanity Quotes - page 5

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
God gave us laughter, I think, as a balm to wash the wounds of our own blunders, as a splint to mend the bones we break in our rashness or vanity. View quote
Mark Buchanan
If we do not look into and analyze the question of what constitutes true fear of God and what its ramifications are, how will we acquire it and how will we escape wordly vanity which renders our hearts forgetful of it? Will it not be forgotten and go lost even though we recognize its necessity? Love of God, too-if we do not make an effort to implant it in our hearts, utilizing all of the means which direct us towards it, how will it exist within us? View quote
Moshe Chaim Luzzatto
If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself - ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanity - before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly. View quote
Eugene O'Neill
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. View quote
Eugene O'Neill
The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not. View quote
George Michael
I don't mind women who want to act. That's fine. It's odd that men want to act, in that there's still a degree of vanity associated with it. View quote
Shane Black
Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense. View quote
Julian Casablancas
I should have more vanity. View quote
Amy Brenneman
So when I look in the mirror I'm driven by both vanity and fear. View quote
Andy Whitfield
If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television. (Clive Anderson)
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power). View quote
Dawn Powell
You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere. View quote
Dave Schulthise
There's nothing like getting yourself into character and seeing a different person. It really wears on your vanity. View quote
Elisabeth Moss
Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth. View quote
Elizabeth Smart
Doing press is like eating at McDonald's: while it's going on it's vaguely enjoyable - you're seduced by your own vanity and taking yourself rather seriously - but immediately afterwards you feel sick. View quote
Emily Mortimer
I imagine my children are going to save me from my vanity and be my passion and fill whatever fears I have of the amazing time I'm having right now being gone. View quote
Gwen Stefani
Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very, very blurred. View quote
Jason Patric
I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity. View quote
Lord Mountbatten
The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly. View quote
Matthew Hale
My vanity is not dead. I laugh when I see pictures of myself as I am now-maybe so I won't cry, but just because it is really funny how much I've changed. (Michael Zaslow)
There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity. View quote
Rafe Spall
They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice! View quote
Shirley Knight
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. View quote
Stone Gossard
Vanity is as old as the mammoth. View quote
W. L. George