Vanity Quotes - Page 26

Vanity, or to call it by a gentler name, the desire of admiration and applause, is, perhaps, the most universal principle of humanactions.... Where that desire is wanting, we are apt to be indifferent, listless, indolent, and inert.... I will own to you, under the secrecy of confession, that my vanity has very often made me take great pains to make many a woman in love with me, if I could, for whose person I would not have given a pinch of snuff.

Ecclesiastes said that "all is vanity," Most modern preachers say the same, or show it By their examples of true Christianity: In short, all know, or very short may know it.

Children live in the same world we do. To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just naive it's a vanity.

Either you are so underdeveloped that you can't see all that you can do, or you won't sacrifice your ease, your vanity, or whatever it is, to do it.

The harming of animals for any reason is shameful, but torturing them for mere vanity is senseless. Slaughtering animals for their fur or harming them for cosmetic purposes is disgusting and not worth the perfect shade of lipstick.

Graveyards remind us of the vanity of all human endeavour.

One thing House needs Wilson for is vanity. He needs someone to laugh at his jokes.

To be happy one must be (a) well fed, unhounded by sordid cares, at ease in Zion, (b) full of a comfortable feeling of superiority to the masses of one's fellow men, and (c) delicately and unceasingly amused according to one's taste. It is my contention that, if this definition be accepted, there is no country in the world wherein a man constituted as I am - a man of my peculiar weakness, vanities, appetites, and aversions - can be so happy as he can be in the United States.

He had the vanity to believe men did not like him – while men simply did not know him.

He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more he loses himself the more he has to endeavor to regain his position by means of the opinion of others.

Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many a morality.

Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.

One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.

That little hypocrites and half-crazed people dare to imagine that on their account the laws of nature are constantly broken; such an enhancement of every kind of selfishness to infinity, to impudence, cannot be branded with sufficient contempt. And yet Christianity owes its triumph to this pitiable flattery of personal vanity.

Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.

This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave; it is but misery, vanity, and folly; a phantom--the very fashion of which "passeth away.

The youth who, like a woman, loves to adorn his person, has renounced all claim to wisdom and to glory; glory is due to those only who dare to associate with pain, and have trampled pleasure under their feet.

What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.

The most effectual way to be deceived is to believe oneself more cunning than one's neighbors.

People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.

Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.

We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.

I never understand how writers can succumb to vanity - what you work the hardest on is usually the worst.

Quomondo sedet sola civitas. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.