vanity quotes

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, ‚Is it safe?‘ Expediency asks the question, ‚Is it politic?‘ And Vanity comes along and asks the question, ‚Is it popular?‘ But Conscience asks the question, ‚Is it right?‘

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity, arrogance and pride.

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it’s beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth… Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

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

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don’t know how to manage it.

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.

The sexiest people are thinkers. Nobody’s interested in somebody who’s just vain with a hole in their head, talking about the latest thing – there is no latest thing. It’s all rubbish.

It is just like man’s vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.