Vanity Quotes - Page 13

• You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

  Gustav Mahler

  Renounce, Conventions, Delusion

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• Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity.

  Leighton Meester

  Thinking, Aging

  FaceBook post by Leighton Meester from Jun 28, 2013

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• The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere.

  Maria Mitchell

  Sex, Flattery, Sincere

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play
  And in one word, just nothing.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Play, Shadow, World

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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• There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Writing, Obvious

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.721, Stanford University Press

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• A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.

  Thomas Moore

  Wife, Retiring, Fastidious

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• Doing press is like eating at McDonald's: while it's going on it's vaguely enjoyable - you're seduced by your own vanity and taking yourself rather seriously - but immediately afterwards you feel sick.

  Emily Mortimer

  Mcdonalds, Sick, Eating

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• I've loved 'Vanity Fair' since I was 16 years old. You know, we're all colonial hangovers in India, steeped in English literature. It is one of these novels that I read under the covers at my convent boarding school in Simla.

  Mira Nair

  Hangover, School, Years

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• I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, at least the facelift wasn't vanity, but the hair was.

  Gary Numan

  Jobs, Hair, Important

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• When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Birthday, Women, Thinking

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• Vanity is but the surface.

  Blaise Pascal

  Surface

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• The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

  Blaise Pascal

  Ignorance, Causes, Consciousness

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.47, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

  Blaise Pascal

  Time, Ignorance, Knowledge

  c.1654-1662 Pense es, no.23.

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• 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.

  Natalie Portman

  Nice, Levels, Excited

  "Natalie Portman turns heads in 'Vendetta'". www.today.com. February 14, 2006.

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• Now, I'm not saying I'm fashionable, but there are sociological interests that matter to me, things that are theoretical, political, intellectual and also concerned with vanity and beauty that we all think about but that I try to mix up and translate into fashion.

  Miuccia Prada

  Fashion, Thinking, Political

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?

  Lou Reed

  Art, Reality, Pieces

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• Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad.

  Eric Ries

  Numbers, Want, Metrics

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• 'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science, people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It's bizarre.

  Julia Roberts

  Crazy, Moving, Ideas

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• What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Jealousy, Pain, Cutting

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• Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Money, Giving, Flattery

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Funeral, Honor

  "Pensées Tirées des Premières Éditions". "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, 1822.

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• We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Doe, Littles, Speak

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 137, 1678.

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• What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Generosity, Giving, Given

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• What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Exercise, Generosity, Giving

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• She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.

  Christina Rossetti

  Beauty, Eye, Covered Up

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.160, Delphi Classics

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