Vanity Quotes - Page 33

• Vanity is apt to inspire contempt, but that becomes immediately tempered by a gentler and more gracious feeling; for the vain man desires to win our approbation, and in this way he flatters us.

  Arthur Alfred Lynch

  Winning, Men, Inspire

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• Jealousy, in spite of the mad frenzy of its most splendid displays, is a vice of weakness; it arises from a mind whose aspirations and desires are inferior to its accomplishments; it is the child of baulked vanity and failure of courage.

  Arthur Alfred Lynch

  Children, Accomplishment, Mad

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• I do believe that as you write more and age, the arrogance and most of the vanity goes. Or it is a vanity met with vast gratitude, that you were hit by something as you stood in the way of it, that anybody is listening.

  Barry Hannah

  Gratitude, Believe, Writing

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• Every man is of importance to himself, and, therefore, in his own opinion, to others; and, supposing the world already acquainted with his pleasures and his pains, is perhaps the first to publish injuries or misfortunes which had never been known unless related by himself, and at which those that hear them will only laugh, for no man sympathises with the sorrows of vanity.

  Samuel Johnson

  Pain, Writing, Men

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of the English poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: including the series edited with prefaces, biographical and critical”, p.78

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• No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library; for who can see the wall crowded on every side by mighty volumes, the works of laborious meditations and accurate inquiry, now scarcely known but by the catalogue.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wall, Writing, Meditation

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.167

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• Without that poise and balance and gentle humor and caring sense, nothing happens at all. It's just egotism and vanity and jealousy and possessiveness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Caring

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• There is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity.

  Nigella Lawson

  Literature

  "Nigella Lawson: Who'd be a goddess?" by Sally Vincent, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2004.

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• O wearisome condition of humanity! Born under one law, to another bound; Vainly begot and yet forbidden vanity; Created sick, commanded to be sound.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Law, Sick, Humanity

  Fulke Greville, “Mustapha”

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• I feel like all comedy does require a lack of vanity, but multi-cam, especially.

  Anna Faris

  Doe, Comedy, Feels

  Source: collider.com

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• (A unified) 'Europe' is the result of plans. It is, in fact, a classic utopian project, a monument to the vanity of intellectuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure: only the scale of the final damage done is in doubt.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Failure, Destiny, Europe

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• I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Curiosity, Motive, Journalist

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• There is no hate without fear. Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear is lurking. Thus we hate what threatens our person, our liberty, our privacy, our income, our popularity, our vanity and our dreams and plans for ourselves. If we can isolate this element in what we hate we may be able to cease from hating... Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.

  Cyril Connolly

  Dream, Children, Hate

  "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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• There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.

  Rafe Spall

  Males, Unattractive

  "Rafe Spall: from fat to fit". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2013.

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• Helping children at a level of genuine intellectual inquiry takes imagination on the part of the adult. Even more, it takes the courage to become a resource in unfamiliar areas of knowledge and in ones for which one has no taste. But parents, no less than teachers, must respect a child's mind and not exploit it for their own vanity or ambition, or to soothe their own anxiety.

  Dorothy H Cohen

  Teacher, Children, Ambition

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• Okay, sense of humor: plus one. Being able to laugh at yourself: plus one. Being able to laugh at other people without being mean: plus one. Vanity: minus one.

  Katie Aselton

  Mean, People, Laughing

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

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• When you write you in a way write out of what you think of as your best self, the part of you that is lacking in foibles and weaknesses and egotism and vanities and so on. You're just trying to really say something as truthful as you can out of the best that you have in you.

  Salman Rushdie

  Writing, Thinking, Self

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.

  Joseph Joubert

  Wise, Fashion, Often Is

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• moral vanity is the snare of good people.

  Margaret Deland

  People, Morality, Snares

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• That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving.

  Theodore Parker

  Giving, Liberality

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• Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.

  Wilkie Collins

  Proud, Pedants, Pedantry

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• I am simply not such a slave to my vanity, and I don't want to be, because as you get older you really have to start accepting the inevitable.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Want, Slave, Accepting

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• advertising confuses values ... By appealing either to fear, or to vanity, or to covetousness, it very skillfully insinuates false values.

  Ann Bridge

  Advertising, Covetousness, Values

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• ... without health to enjoy love, and love to enjoy wealth, is not all vanity?

  Ellen Buckingham Mathews

  And Love, Wealth, Enjoy

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• The manly pride of the Romans, content with substantial power, had left to the vanity of the East the forms and ceremonies of ostentatious greatness. But when they lost even the semblance of those virtues which were derived from their ancient freedom, the simplicity of Roman manners was insensibly corrupted by the stately affectation of the courts of Asia.

  Edward Gibbon

  Pride, Greatness, History

  Edward Gibbon (1875). “History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.107

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• No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you're better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.

  Thomas More

  People, Want, Greedy

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