Vanity Quotes - Page 19

The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please their want of taste, to flatter their absurd vanity, to tell them what they have been told before, to show them what they ought to be tired of seeing, to amuse them when they feel heavy after eating too much, and to distract their thoughts when they are wearied of their own stupidity.

Some men mistake generosity for charity: these flatter themselves that they are giving gratuitously, whilst they are merely rewarding secret services offered their vanity.

The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

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.

Now, I'm not saying I'm fashionable, but there are sociological interests that matter to me, things that are theoretical, political, intellectual and also concerned with vanity and beauty that we all think about but that I try to mix up and translate into fashion.

There is no point in keeping vengeance or stubbornness. These things" -he sighed- "these things I so regret in my life. Pride. Vanity. Why do we do the things we do? Morrie Schwartz

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.

I see a funny guy who's imperfect, but has a great heart and no vanity when it comes to what he'll do to get a laugh. I see a guy who loves his art and loves his family, and who is willing to live and die for both.

He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.

Where would the power of women be, were it not for the vanity of men?

And yet, after all, what is posthumous fame? Altogether vanity.

O vanity, mislead no more!

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it makes us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

When we live our lives not for vanity, but for the sake of God and the betterment of humanity, that's what gives us immortality.

To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life.

Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics.

Because arrogance is born in personal vanity, arrogant people are driven without mercy. They can never get enough power to fill the soul's needs or enough respect to overcome the fear that they deserve less than they are getting.

... many a heart is caught in the rebound ... Pride may be soothed by the ready devotion of another; vanity may be excited the more keenly by recent mortification.

Why seek to embarrass [the artist] with vanities foreign to his quietness? Know you not that certain sciences require the whole man, leaving no part of him at leisure for your trifles?

Vanity bids all her sons be brave, and all her daughters chaste and courteous.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.

The worst of lusts is vanity.

The idea of Kanye and vanity are like, synonymous.

It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.