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Tag Name "Vanity" (682)

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Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.
John Ruskin
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I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Puffballs of vanity when they're not being absurdly violent wretchedly unhappy in their mental prisons and too stubborn to open the door and escape.
Deepak Chopra
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Vanity is both a great motivator and a great deceiver.
Andrew Davidson
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One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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... 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.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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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.
Leo Tolstoy
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My vanity is not remotely physical, it is cerebral. I suppose feeling self-conscious might be a form of vanity, though.
Richard Griffiths
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in reference to Persepolis and all palaces, cities and temples of the past: could these wonders have come into being without that suffering? without the overseer's whip, the slave's fear, the ruler's vanity? was not the monumentality of past epochs created by that which is negative and evil in man?
Ryszard Kapuscinski
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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.
Antonio Porchia
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For me the motley and the bauble, yea, Though all be vanity, as the Preacher saith, The mirth of love be mine for one brief breath!
Frederic Lawrence Knowles
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Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character vanity of person and of situation.
Jane Austen
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I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, Without vanity I may say, etc., but some vain thing immediately followed.
Benjamin Franklin
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Imperfections would not be half so much taken notice of, if vanity did not make proclamation of them.
Roger L'Estrange
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Graveyards remind us of the vanity of all human endeavour.
Ivan Klíma
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Vanity bids all her sons be brave, and all her daughters chaste and courteous.
Laurence Sterne
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I think if you try to look for something to show off as an actor, vanity can get the better of you.
Steve Coogan
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Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.
Fernando Pessoa
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They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
Ambrose Bierce
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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving we enjoy the vanity more. If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.
Mother Teresa
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It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
Luc de Clapiers
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Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Pride is a fault that great men blush not to own: it is the ennobled offspring of self-love though, it must be confessed, grave and pompous vanity, Iike a fat plebeian in a rove of office, does very often assume its name.
Joanna Baillie
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Vanity is a silly thing to be obsessed with because... it sounds cliché but it leads you to emptiness it goes away.
Kristen Stewart
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