Vanity Quotes (251 Quotes)

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

Rudolph Valentino had an air of sadness. He wore his success gracefully, appearing almost subdued by it. He was intelligent, quiet and without vanity, and had great allure for women, but had little success with them, and those whom he married treated him rather shabbily. . . No man had greater attraction for women than Valentino no man was more deceived by them.

Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities all is vanity.

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

It's always our touches of vanity That manage to betray us.

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.

Imagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity.

There is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity.

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

As he said vanity, so vain say I,
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What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.

The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders.

To his sister-in-law What a contrast between us You live a warm and glowing life, surrounded by loved ones whom you care for and who care for you you are anchored in contentment. I drift about without rudder or compass, a wreck on the sea of life I have no memories to cheer me, no pleasant illusions of the future to comfort me, or about me to satisfy my vanity. I have no family to furnish the only kind of survival that concerns us, no friends for the wholesome development of my affections, or enemies for my malice.

I have always been a true supporter of globalization, of a world religion that would show to the man more truth about this world, which would be closer to him. A religion where the true divinity is the man and not what is alien to him. I have said countless of times that only a world religion may truly bring peace on earth. I see this world religion based on the principles in this book. Even in the case of the society of the Sacred Self or of the spiritualist society, as I see the future of mankind Man will be and will remain an eternally religious being, being its entire being will be based on the Prayer of Solidarity with Divinity and the Self Universe and its exterior, solidarity due to the Vanity to which all of this is obeying.

O vanity, mislead no more!

You know, at 35 or at 38 or 40 you really start to see what your body could look like if you just don't do anything all winter long. So that's another motivating factor, our vanity.

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

O jackal, leave aside the body of that man at once, whose hands have never given in charity, whose ears have not heard the voice of learning, whose eyes have not beheld a pure devotee of the Lord, whose feet have never traversed to holy places, whose belly is filled with things obtained by crooked practices, and whose head is held high in vanity. Do not eat it, O jackal, otherwise you will become polluted.

Follow not after vanity, nor after the enjoyment of love and lust

If man is vanity, its divinity will be vanity as well. Mans prayer will become his religion And mans religion will have as main subject vanity and not divinity, because everything there is and everything there is not are owed to this Vanity, even the divinity that exists and the one that does not exist, even the Universe because all of these are known by man, because if they were not known none of the would exist Thus, man is and will always remain a religious being, and if he should try to chase away the religious side of his Self he will do nothing else that chase himself away from his own Self, as he is now when he seeks and sees religion outside him.

Only this way the human life will escape its own burden, its own image, its own Destiny, the vanity, the deceit and the absurd, the strange coldness of this world, finally choosing the complete peace of the Nirvana it was looking throughout its historical evolution, a strange and absurd Nirvana itself in reference to the increasingly humble and insignificant being compared to it, to the stranger that replaces more often self and more inhumanly, that mocks her creating it a society increasingly petty and absurd. Is suicide the saving solution of the mankind Is it not any other way through which man would chase away the alien within him, the absurd and the anxiety so that he can find his Sacred Self that was stolen so many millennia ago What other way could there be except suicide.

DREAMS All people dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their mind, Wake in the morning to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous people, For they dream their dreams with open eyes, And make them come true.

The act of love ... is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.

And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world

All is vanity, and discovering it - the greatest vanity

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We woman have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.

Curiosity is only in vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.

There is no more reason to accuse ourselves excessively of our failings than to excuse them overmuch. He who goes overboard in self-criticism often does so in order not to suffer others' criticisms, or else does so out of a kind of vanity that wishes to make others believe that he knows how to confess his faults.

One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about

Our vanity is most difficult to wound just when our pride has been wounded.

Wilson adventured for the whole of the human race. Not as a servant, but as a champion. So pure was this motive, so unfrocked with anything that his worst enemies could find, except the mildest and most excusable, a personal vanity, practically the minimum to be human, that in a sense his adventure is that of humanity itself. In Wilson, the whole of mankind breaks camp, sets out from home and wrestles with the universe and its gods.

All of the religious furniture of the man will be reduced to his sentimental furniture, of the feelings his self has, giving birth to the religion of his own destiny, and to the destiny of his own religion, always without the possibility of denial, to the eternal path of vanity, through which man becomes stronger through another new vanity.

This man will not be able to understand why the sun still has the power to shine, eve if everything is vanity, as he will not be able to understand why the sun, the universe and all of its infinite galaxies and the endless stars have an age. He will not be able to understand why all of this dies, why they will all be someday stardust, and more than that, they will be Void and being, they will the nothingness of the vanity of vanities in vanity. And man will wonder Was it at least a Curse No, they cannot even be that. He will wonder again Was it a prayer or faith And he will turn to the church again, but this time he will not look for the church outside him, but only inside him, finding it in the Sacred Self alone, where it awaited him for so long facing the ages, when man was facing himself. And Man will shout desperately to his Sacred Self Why all of this Why the vanity Only then the Sacred Self will answer him For you It was all for you Man For me, will answer the man to his Sacred Self. Yes Man Yes Man Yes Man, will infinitely repeat the Sacred Self.

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

Censorship is the height of vanity.

Vanity is but the surface.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

It is better that great peoples should seek out glory, or even vanity, in their deeds, than that they should remain indifferent . For even if they are not incited to act upon virtuous principles, at least there is the saving grace that they will do things they might not have done had not vanity prompted their actions.

We regard it here as reliable. It always has an edge, but it's backed up with facts, and this is another example. I asked O'Connor today why he went to Vanity Fair , and he said he wanted somebody that was credible with a good reputation and would maybe push it a little bit. He said he found that in Vanity Fair .

Do not cry, because we are destiny, because we are everything that can be above this world. And now, the angel of my life, please let me fly so that I can fulfil the vanity of this world, of this dream, of this nightmare that eternally took you from me. I didnt thought you will come now at this age and time of this Illusion of Life, but between these bars I tell you how much I love you and do not ever doubt me. I will be yours in every moment of this life, which I give to you. .

Vanity Fair magazine reports that former President Clinton and Al Gore haven't spoken to each other since George W. Bush's inauguration. Not only that, Bill and his wife, Hillary, haven't spoken since Richard Nixon's inauguration.

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.