Vanity Quotes - Page 38

• Healthy vanity sweeps through life. Sickly vanity lies in bed.

  Mason Cooley

  Lying, Healthy, Bed

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• So when I look in the mirror I'm driven by both vanity and fear.

  Andy Whitfield

  Mirrors, Looks, Driven

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• To what gods is sacrificed that rarest and sweetest thing upon earth, friendship? To vanity and to interest.

  Guillaume-Chretien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes

  Friendship, Earth, Interest

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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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• But when I am alone, I do not have the effrontery to consider myself an artist at all, not in the grand old meaning of the word: Giotto, Titian, Rembrandt, Goya were great painters. I am only a public clown-a mountebank. I have understood my time and have exploited the imbecility, the vanity, the greed of my contemporaries. It is a bitter confession, this confession of mine, more painful than it may seem. But at least and at last it does have the merit of being honest.

  Pablo Picasso

  Artist, Greed, Doe

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• Purpose without virtue is vanity.

  Fernando Torres

  Purpose, Virtue

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

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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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• The feminine vanity-case is the graveyard of masculine illusions.

  Helen Rowland

  Sex, Illusion, Feminine

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• Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad.

  Salvador Dali

  Art, Entertainment, Right Now

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• 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 are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Law, Giving

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories”, p.101, Penguin

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• Its obvious nonsense, but it makes nice people feel good about themselves to do their bit for the planet. Its vanity of a grotesque kind to believe that mankind, and our carbon footprint, has more impact on the future of Earth than Nature, which bends our planet to its will, as it sees fit.

  Charles Saatchi

  Nice, Believe, Carbon Footprint

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• As an architect it is very important that you distinguish between different realities. There's the reality of the drawing and the reality of the building. So one could say, or at least it is the common belief that architecture has to be built; I always denied that, because ultimately it is based on an idea. I don't ever need a building to verify my idea. Of course, what with a building is more its vanity and actual physical experience. But I anticipate; I wouldn't even build it if I could not anticipate how it would be.

  Raimund Abraham

  Reality, Ideas, Drawing

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• I'm not invited to the Vanity Fair dinner where they watch the Oscars - or even the Oscars themselves - so I sit at home and watch it with a bunch of close friends.

  Brett Ratner

  Home, Watches, Oscars

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• From time to time, just about every Vanity Fair writer has a chance to sell rights to an article or a book to Hollywood.

  Bryan Burrough

  Book, Rights, Hollywood

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• You come to know the aches and vanities and tastes and intrigues of an entire neighborhood at a drug store.

  Paul Engle

  Drug, Taste, Stores

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• Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair.

  Alexandre Dumas-fils

  Pride, True Evil, Despair

  Alexandre Dumas fils (2004). “Camille”, p.24, Penguin

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• We really care about photography at Vanity Fair.

  Graydon Carter

  Photography, Care, Fairs

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• Vanity is normal in performers. Does it bother other people? All the time. But nine times out of 10, that says more about them than you.

  Tom Hardy

  People, Doe, Nine

  "Tom Hardy Talks Grown-Up Love". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. July 19, 2012.

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• Is not wounded vanity the mother of all tragedies?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mother, Tragedy, Wounded

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.149, e-artnow

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• Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Opposites, People

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• In luck or out the toil has left its mark:
  That old perplexity an empty purse,
  Or the day's vanity, the night's remorse.

  William Butler Yeats

  Work, Frustration, Night

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• One's own vanities and humiliations I find a delicious subject for conversation. Things said of me behind my back I don't enjoy, and don't listen to them.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Gossip, Behind My Back, Conversation

  Logan Pearsall Smith, Edwin Tribble (1984). “A chime of words: the letters of Logan Pearsall Smith”

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