Vanity Quotes - Page 27

• There's nothing like getting yourself into character and seeing a different person. It really wears on your vanity.

  Elisabeth Moss

  Character, Different, Persons

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

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• My vanity is not dead. I laugh when I see pictures of myself as I am now-maybe so I won't cry, but just because it is really funny how much I've changed.

  Michael Zaslow

  Laughing, Cry, I've Changed

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• In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat.

  David Hewson

  Men, Focus, Missing

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• Even the wisest of mankind cannot live by reason alone; pure arrogant reason, denying the claims of prejudice (which commonly are also the claims of conscience), leads to a wasteland of withered hopes and crying loneliness, empty of God and man: the wilderness in which Satan tempted Christ was not more dreadful than the arid expanse of intellectual vanity deprived of tradition and intuition, where modern man is tempted by his own pride.

  Russell Kirk

  Loneliness, Pride, Men

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.41, Regnery Publishing

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• Pride is an established conviction of one’s own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction in others, and it is generally accompanied by the secret hope of ultimately coming to the same conviction oneself. Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Appreciation, Pride, Secret

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.444, Simon and Schuster

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• The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are coarse; we need women who are kind. There are enough women who are rude; we need women who are refined. We have enough women of fame and fortune; we need more women of faith. We have enough greed; we need more goodness. We have enough vanity; we need more virtue. We have enough popularity; we need more purity.

  Margaret D. Nadauld

  Inspirational, Faith, Women

  "The Joy of Womanhood" by Margaret D. Nadauld, www.lds.org. November 2000.

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• There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own follies than to boast that they rose in the world through their own industry and talents. It is the same shabby-genteel sentiment, the same vanity of birth which makes men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels rather than elevated apes.

  William Winwood Reade

  Father, Believe, Angel

  William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.395

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• Dancing serves no necessary use, no profitable, laudable, or pious end at all. It is only from the inbred pravity, vanity, wantonness, incontinency, pride, profaneness, or madness of man's depraved nature.

  William Prynne

  Dance, Pride, Men

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• Every noble action is selfish. Some selfish actions are nobler than others. But they are all selfish. And as such there can be no action purely noble anyway. Even the nobility in God's great philosophical intentions is bounded by his vanity.

  Kedar Joshi

  Selfish, Philosophical, Noble

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• The meaning of life is 'the ultimate questioner's vanity.'

  Kedar Joshi

  Life, Science, Ultimate

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• If God were to exist for the entire humanity, he would be profoundly vile, as he allows the existence of unfathomable sin, stupidity, madness, and misery for no reason than his own despicable enjoyment. God exists though, not for all humanity, but for a one chosen man - a philosopher - who is bound to answer the greatest philosophical question, the question about the nature of the questioner's existence, which progressively quenches the divine vanity.

  Kedar Joshi

  God, Pain, Philosophical

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• The worst of lusts is vanity.

  Kedar Joshi

  Lust, Worst

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• God is the only evil. His vanity made him the devil.

  Kedar Joshi

  God, Evil, Made

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• The mother of creation is vanity.

  Kedar Joshi

  God, Mother, Purpose

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• Philosophy is the only excuse God has for his cruelty and vanity.

  Kedar Joshi

  God, Philosophy, Excuse

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• God's greatest thirst and his greatest sin is his ultimate vanity.

  Kedar Joshi

  Sin, Thirst, Ultimate

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• A fundamental condition of Being is slavery. Man is the slave of God, and God that of His vanity.

  Kedar Joshi

  Men, Slavery, Conditions

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• I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake of divine vanity.

  Kedar Joshi

  Philosophical, Ignorance, Sake

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• Listen to your heart and not your ego. Your ego prompts you to boast of vain assertions to obtain the glory of this world. Turn away from vanity and seek Him in the recesses of your heart and soul

  Abdul-Qadir Gilani

  Wisdom, Islamic, Heart

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• Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy-a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.

  Frederick Douglass

  Religious, Prayer, Greatness

  What to the Slave is the 4th of July?, delivered 4 July 1852

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• A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Fool, Folly

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• After all, what does fame everlasting mean? Mere vanity.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Fame, Everlasting

  "The meditations of Marcus Aurelius". Book by Marcus Aurelius, translated by Jeremy Collier, archive.org. 1887.

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• The burning conviction that we have a holy duty towards others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft. What looks like a giving hand is often a holding on for dear life. Take away our holy duties and you leave our lives puny and meaningless. There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.

  Eric Hoffer

  Self Esteem, Humility, Hands

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and the choleric into an assassin. It gives bitterness to resentment, it makes vanity insupportable, and displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity.

  Joseph Addison

  Wine, Men, Giving

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Francis Prévost, Francis William Blagdon (1833). “The Spectator, in Miniature: Being the Principal Religious, Moral, Humourous, Satirical and Critical Essays, in that Publication Compressed Into Two Volumes”, p.118

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• A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Atmosphere, Conceit, Certain

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