Vanity Quotes - Page 11

• Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.

  Alfred de Musset

  Dignity, Vulnerable, Vain

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• The near touch of death may be a release into life; if only it will break the egoistic will, and release that other flow.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Death, Broken, May

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8354, Delphi Classics

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• Is there any vanity greater than the vanity of those who believe themselves without it?

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Believe, Greater

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• Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Men, Careers, Crowds

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• Every one at the bottom of his heart cherishes vanity; even the toad thinks himself good-looking,--"rather tawny perhaps, but look at his eye!

  Woodrow Wilson

  Heart, Eye, Thinking

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• Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.

  Arthur Helps

  Life, Social, Offended

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• All the excesses, all the violence, and all the vanity of great men, come from the fact that they know not what they are: it being difficult for those who regard themselves at heart as
  equal with all men... For this it is necessary for one to forget himself, and to believe that he has some real excellence above them, in which consists this illusion that I am endeavoring to
  discover to you.

  Blaise Pascal

  Real, Believe, Heart

  Blaise Pascal (1961). “Thoughts”

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• I do not know
  What kind of my obedience I should tender.
  More than my all is nothing; nor my prayers
  Are not words holy hallowed, nor my wishes
  More worth than empty vanities; yet prayers and wishes
  Are all I can return.

  William Shakespeare

  Prayer, Wish, Return

  William Shakespeare (2015). “King John and King Henry VIII”, p.215, Hackett Publishing

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• Invest in vanity. Buy stocks in high-profile companies whose products are designed to make you feel good and look good.

  Nancy Dunnan

  Feel Good, Looks, Profile

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• By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.

  Florence Nightingale

  Filling Up, Want, Produce

  Florence Nightingale (1991). “Cassandra: And Other Selections from Suggestions for Thought”, Pickering & Chatto Publishers

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• Resentment is, in every stage of the passion, painful, but it is not disagreeable, unless in excess; pity is always painful, yet always agreeable; vanity, on the contrary, is always pleasant, yet always disagreeable.

  Alec Douglas-Home

  Passion, Excess, Resentment

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• Because handsomeness is always accompanied by vanity.And I suppose ugliness is accompanied by a wealth of virtues?

  Lisa Kleypas

  Wealth, Virtue, Ugliness

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• The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in change, as from the distaste we feel in being too little admired by those that know us too well, and the hope of being more admired by those that know us less.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friendship, Littles, Satisfaction

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• Some men are so full of themselves that when they fall in love, they amuse themselves rather with their own passion than with theperson they love.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Fall, Passion

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• The most effectual way to be deceived is to believe oneself more cunning than one's neighbors.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Believe, Deception, Way

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• The courage of a great many men, and the virtue of a great many women, are the effect of vanity, shame, and especially a suitabletemperament.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Courage, Men, Bravery

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• We often brag that we are never bored with ourselves, and are so vain as never to think ourselves bad company.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Thinking, Boredom, Vain

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• The judgments our enemies make about us come nearer to the truth than those we make about ourselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Enemy, Judgment

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• Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Self, Affliction, May

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• Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Littles, Virtue, Company

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• The exceeding delight we take in talking about ourselves should give us cause to fear that we are giving but very little pleasureto our listeners.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Fear, Talking, Giving

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• What man needs is not philosophy or religion in the academic or formalistic sense of the term, but ability to think rightly. The malady of the age is not absence of philosophy or even irreligion but wrong thinking and a vanity which passes for knowledge. Though it is difficult to define right thinking, it cannot be denied that it is the goal of the aspirations of everyone.

  Krishnananda Saraswati

  Philosophy, Men, Thinking

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• I imagine it great vanity in me to suppose that the Supremely Perfect does in the least regard such an inconsiderable nothing as man. More especially, since it is impossible for me to have any positive, clear idea of that which is infinite and incomprehensible, I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.

  Benjamin Franklin

  God, Religious, Father

  Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson (2003). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people tend to push it away. It's really too close to the quick of the soul. Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live. Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.

  Stella Blum

  Fashion, Hate, Views

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• Sharing holiday snaps on social media is an act of arrogant vanity.

  Jeremy Paxman

  Holiday, Media, Arrogant

  Source: www.ft.com

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