Vanity Quotes - Page 24

Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind.

Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality.

What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the ambitions, the fear, and the enraptured and terrified folly of mankind?

I have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did.

Is not wounded vanity the mother of all tragedies?

One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

The judgments our enemies make about us come nearer to the truth than those we make about ourselves.

Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener.

If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.

Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respect—you don't call a man a coward or a liar lightly, but if you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them.

Talking about your hair becomes a framework for talking about your vanity, your self-esteem, your relationships with your family, your mortality.

I went to Cal Arts and AFI, and I worked on 'Bonfire Of The Vanities.' I got this grant from the Academy to be Brian De Palma's apprentice director. And it was such a harrowing, disillusioning, awful experience.

If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.

Sure I'm cut but not for the sake of vanity.

All politicians have vanity. Some wear it more gently than others.

Without "The Law of Moses" would we all be wandering around like little gods, stealing, raping, and spilling blood whenever our vanity was offended?

And that is enough to raise your thoughts to what may happen when the redeemed soul, beyond all hope and nearly beyond belief, learns at last that she has pleased Him whom she was created to please. There will be no room for vanity then. She will be free from the miserable illusion that it is her doing. With no taint of what we should now call self-approval she will most innocently rejoice in the thing that God has made her to be, and the moment which heals her old inferiority complex forever will also drown her pride… Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

[On vanity:] The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the face of the earth would have changed.

We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are no more. Such is our vanity that the good opinion of half a dozen of the people around us gives us pleasure and satisfaction.

Power, like vanity, is insatiable. Nothing short of omnipotence could satisfy it completely.

Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display, and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and nothing would exist.

When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more.

VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass.

Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.