Vanity Quotes - Page 14

Those Women who boast the Affections of their Admirers, have a greater share of Vanity than Love.

There's nothing like getting yourself into character and seeing a different person. It really wears on your vanity.

The earth is not a mechanism but an organism, a being with its own life and its own reasons, where the support and sustenance of the human animal is incidental. If man in his newfound power and vanity persists in the attempt to remake the planet in his own image, he will succeed only in destroying himself - not the planet. The earth will survive our most ingenious folly.

Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.

The smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Selfdistrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his protracted existence.

I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.

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.

If I was lying on my deathbed and I had kept this secret and never ever did anything about it, I would be lying there saying, 'You just blew your entire life.'

We are so presumptuous that we wish to be known to all the world, even to those who come after us; and we are so vain that the esteem of five or six persons immediately around us is enough to amuse and satisfy us.

Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.

What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.

How heroic to be able to suppress one's vanity to the extent of confessing that the game is too hard.

Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.

The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.

All is vanity, look you; and so the preacher is vanity too.

We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we feel this, such a sense of the vanity of our voluntary career comes over us, that all our morality appears but as a plaster hiding a sore it can never cure, and all our well-doing as the hollowest substitute for that well-being that our lives ought to be grounded in, but alas! are not.

The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.

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.

I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

Paper money is like dram-drinking, it relieves for a moment by deceitful sensation, but gradually diminishes the natural heat, and leaves the body worse than it found it. Were not this the case, and could money be made of paper at pleasure, every sovereign in Europe would be as rich as he pleased. But the truth is, that it is a bubble and the attempt vanity. Nature has provided the proper materials for money: gold and silver, and any attempt of ours to rival her is ridiculous.

I think if you try to look for something to show off as an actor, vanity can get the better of you.

We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable.

The greatest human virtue bears no proportion to human vanity. We always think ourselves better than we are, and are generally desirous that others should think us still better than we think ourselves. To praise us for actions or dispositions which deserve praise is not to confer a benefit, but to pay a tribute. We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable, and which we are desirous to strengthen by a new suffrage; we have always hopes which we suspect to be fallacious, and of which we eagerly snatch at every confirmation.

No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity.