There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.
Vanity Quotes (251 Quotes)
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
Snakes hiss pigs grunt and bills moo They are asserting their ego, intent on keeping others away. Of the traits of ego, pride is the most poisonous. But, the pride of the scholar and the vanity of Pundits are so thick, that it is impossible for them to get rid of these.
Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.
If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.
No, I shall not say why it is that I love you-
Why do you ask me, save for vanity?
I have a lot of vanity.
Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity.
To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.
Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.
Women, and young men, are very apt to tell what secrets they know, from the vanity of having been trusted
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
I guess I'll go to the Vanity Fair party.
I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity.
Vanity backbites more than Malice.
It beareth the name of Vanity-Fair, because the town where 'tis kept, is lighter than vanity.
If churches will disappear, what will replace them The answer is simple Man will replace them Only then will the man turn towards his own Self and wonder what was the use of so much suffering All these millennia of suffering had a meaning, and if they did, what was that meaning Does anyone benefit from this sense And Man will fall again in the darkness of the beginnings of his self, knowing that no meaning can be a meaning because all the paths finally lead to nowhere, to the vanity of the non-Knowledge to which Knowledge is referenced to, that everything is an Image, an Illusion, that all the Knowledge is an Image, an Illusion, and no matter how many meanings it seems to have at a certain time, they will disappear as the smoke carried away by the winds to nowhere. They will disappear because the so-called great and ineffable Knowledge does not even have clay legs, but smoke legs, because it is based on non-Knowledge and thus it becomes non-Knowledge too as non-Knowledge becomes its own Knowledge because it is based on Knowledge and thus it gets to know its own non-Knowledge, its own vanity in these infinite worlds where stars shine or die and time grows younger as the increasing spaces collapse over the laws of the worlds becoming Void and Being.
The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.
A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.
I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.
O heaven, the vanity of wretched fools!
Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.
What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man.
In the vanity of self-consciousness one feels at a long remove above the ordinary love and trustfulness of a simple and pure heart.
Irresponsibility, cowardice, personal vanity, whining and chaos are becoming the maxims of political action. There is a stink in Berlin - a huge one.
I think that speaks to the validity of the Vanity Fair report.
The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
Only then man will raise his eyes to the sun that caressed with its rays so many millennia of frustration and anguish, of absurd and uncertainty, of lack of power and suffering. He will hail the sun and the stars and everything that surrounds him knowing they are all vanity of vanities. Vanity of vanities that will give man a meaning This vanity of vanities will tell the man that he truly dreams his own Illusion of Life, that he finally found the meaning.
The prayer is the symbol of vanity and not of bowing before a divinity, because it only though prayer that man becomes solidary to divinity. Once man becomes solidary to Divinity, to the Universe, he becomes free, because the base of this divinity is the vanity of vanities He becomes free through Vanity because everything is vanity, the entire world and all of mans divinity Before understanding all of this, mankind will have to go through sufferings that are hard to imagine. There will be several wars, more and more devastating, with many victims killed in the most barbaric way possible, and all of this so that some may dominate this world through fire and sword and others to remain their slaves. Mankind will go through times with more and more unmerciful diseases due to viruses that will be, most of them, created in military genetics laboratories. They will kill a great number of persons and they will bring new sufferings. The political and administrative maps will be constantly changing as a result of deaths and occupations of all sorts.
Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives by make-believe.
Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.
There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.
There's a vanity, ... Almost like Mafia guys who love 'The Godfather' and don't see it as an indictment against them. Some arms dealers will see this film and think it glorifies them. They'll just be questioning how authentic it is.
When women smoke, it is hard for them to quit because they are so worried about their weight; it's a vanity issue and a mindset.
Not even man that will re-find himself will be able to remove the vanity from this diabolic world, but he can change it from a vanity of his ideological debauchee into a vanity of self reconciliation. The divinity in man cannot admit vanity and thus it will try to replace it with new reasons for which we are born, but it will finally understand that everything is a big vanity and a great sin that no longer belongs to us but to the print that whispered our existence, full of the thorns of the moments that hunt us.
It's just like the automotive industry. With the knowledge that more women are buying cars than men, a car salesman would be foolhardy to show a woman a vanity mirror before he talks about price and performance. Women are savvy consumers, and we're talking with them about U-value and energy efficiency, much more often than color options or how easy our windows are to clean.
In every Age I've found much vanity.
O Lord I make my complaint unto thee, of my feebleness, the vanity of my efforts. I am insignificant in the sight of men, O Thou Most Merciful Lord of the weak Thou aret my Lord Forsake me not. Leave me not a prey to strangers, nor to mine enemies. If Thou art not displeased, I am safe. I seek refuge in the light of Thy countenance, by which all darkness is dispelled, and peace cometh in the Here and Hereafter. Solve Thou my difficulties as it pleaseth Thee. There is no power, no strength, save in Thee.
Religion which is interested only in itself, in its prestige and success, in its institutions and ecclesiastical niceties, is worse than vanity; it is essentially incestuous.
Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child.
I don't have much vanity. I just know what I do. I just do because I'm capable of doing it and do it easily without any pretentiousness.
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men they act out their dreams to make them reality.
One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.
Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.
It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.
Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring.