Vanity Quotes - Page 6

Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.

Those years, months, weeks, days, and hours, that are not filled up with God, with Christ, with grace, and with duty, will certainly be filled up with vanity and folly. The neglect of one day, of one duty, of one hour, would undo us, if we had not an Advocate with the Father.

Why do you beat the air and run in vain? Every occupation has a purpose, obviously. Tell me then, what is the purpose of all the activity of the world? Answer, I challenge you! It is vanity of vanity: all is vanity.

I was really excited to get to shave my head - it's something I'd wanted to do for a while and now I had a good excuse. It was nice to shed that level of vanity.

I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.

There are some who become spies for money, or out of vanity and megalomania, or out of ambition, or out of a desire for thrills. But the malady of our time is of those who become spies out of idealism.

Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?

As long as somebody is guaranteed a certain number of sales you know you're gonna keep seeing these vanity projects. I mean they have a place, they serve a function they can bring people into comics.

The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.

Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.

If I make the lashes dark And the eyes more bright And the lips more scarlet, Or ask if all be right From mirror after mirror, No vanity's displayed: I'm looking for the face I had Before the world was made.

How are you to meet the swarm of foolish attachments, triflings, and undesirable inclinations which beset you? By turning sharply away, and thoroughly renouncing such vanities, flying to the Saviour's Cross, and clasping His Crown of thorns to your heart, so that these little foxes may not spoil your vines. Beware of entering into any manner of treaty with the Enemy; do not delude yourself by listening to him while intending to reject him.

You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by hearing the master pieces which have been produced at different periods.

Censorship is the height of vanity.

Vanity, thy name is vampire.

The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that's laughable is vanity.

Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.

Vanity should never tempt a player to engage in a combat at the risk of loss of health. It is bad enough to lose without the additional annoyance of paying doctors' bills.

A philosopher may deplore the eternal discords of the human race, but he will confess, that the desire of spoil is a more rational provocation than the vanity of conquest.

Shine out fair sun, till I have bought a glass, That I may see my shadow as I pass.

Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.

Madness designates the equinox between the vanity of night's hallucinations and the non-being of light's judgments.

There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.

Every sinew in my body came together in one perfect whole. But those who have ever experienced that feeling, and it doesn't happen very often, will tell you it's in a whole other place of experience from the usual ego or vanity that drives my game. So I'm not afraid to own it for what it was.