vanity quotes

• The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need. ( Napoleon I) [influence/vanity]
• Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents. In 1953, excess is always a comfort, and sometimes a career. (Albert Camus) [vanity/career]
• The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity. (Miguel De Cervantes) [knowledge/willpower/vanity]
• Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. (Joseph Conrad) [vanity/memory]
• Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. (George Eliot) [vanity/love]
• Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt. (Benjamin Franklin) [pride/vanity/contempt]
• Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action: and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life. (Benjamin Franklin) [people/vanity/share/give]
• Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity. (Eric Hoffer) [vanity/stupidity]
• The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders. (Eric Hoffer) [vanity]
• No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. (Samuel Johnson) [more/vanity/human/library]
• To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite human beings, Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive. (Samuel Johnson) [human/human/vanity/interest]
• The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it. (Samuel Johnson) [vanity/being]
• I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom --one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise. (John Keats) [willpower/give/vanity/wisdom]
• What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given. (Francois De La Rochefoucauld) [vanity/vanity/more/thing]
• Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay. (Francois De La Rochefoucauld) [pride/wish/vanity/wish]
• Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead. (Francois De La Rochefoucauld) [more/vanity]
• What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own. (Francois De La Rochefoucauld) [vanity]
• A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a rou to retire upon. (Thomas Moore) [wife/vanity]
• Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge. (Iris Murdoch) [more/people/vanity/envy]
• 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! (Friedrich Nietzsche) [vanity/vanity/nature]
• The highest form of vanity is love of fame. (George Santayana) [form/vanity/love/fame]
• Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride. (Jonathan Swift) [vanity/humility/pride]
• There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it. (Mark Twain) [vanity/ability]
• Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak. They a (Oscar Wilde) [vanity/result/give]
• The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. (Thomas Wolfe) [vanity]
• “It takes, truly, a lack of vanity and just being able to take some risks and being OK with looking like a fool, which I am very OK with now.” (Anna Faris) [vanity/being/take/being]
• Being typecast as Lois made my vanity and narcissism scream. Hadn't people seen my other work? But now my grandkids watch it and think I was Superman's friend, so that's a thrill. (Margot Kidder) [being/vanity/people/think]
• “I guess I'll go to the Vanity Fair party.” (Naomi Watts) [vanity]
• Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very, very blurred. (Jason Patric) [being/vanity/being]
• There's a lot of vanity you can get in Hollywood without being a producer. (Jason Patric) [vanity/being]
• “The words that I gave to the writer for Vanity Fair were misused and misconstrued, and I'm appalled with the way it was done.” (Lindsay Lohan) [words/vanity]

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