Vanity Quotes - Page 14

• Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

  Jean Rostand

  Faith, Stupid, Atheism

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• I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.

  Wallace Shawn

  Years, People, Birth

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

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• Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.

  Taylor Swift

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.

  Dylan Thomas

  Upset, Ordinary, Ease

  Dylan Thomas, Paul Ferris (1985). “The collected letters”, Scribner

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• Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

  Leon Trotsky

  Inspirational, Country, Men

  Leon Trotsky (1932). “The History of the Russian Revolution ...”

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• Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O any thing, of nothing first create! O heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms, Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! This love feel I, that feel no love in this.

  William Shakespeare

  Hate, Unrequited Love, Sleep

  William Shakespeare (2008). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.40, Barron's Educational Series

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• The first casualty of hitting rock bottom is vanity.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Rocks, Hitting, Firsts

  Richard Paul Evans (2014). “Richard Paul Evans: The Complete Walk Series eBook Boxed Set: The Walk, Miles to Go, Road to Grace, Step of Faith, Walking on Water”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• The war was about vanity, he said. It was about old men who couldn't look in the mirror anymore and so they sent the young out to die. Was was a get-together of the vain. They wanted it simple--hate your enemy, know nothing of him.

  Colum McCann

  Hate, War, Simple

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.90, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Courage consists, however, in agreeing to flee rather than live tranquilly and hypocritically in false refuges. Values, morals, homelands, religions, and these private certitudes that our vanity and our complacency bestow generously on us, have many deceptive sojourns as the world arranges for those who think they are standing straight and at ease, among stable things

  Gilles Deleuze

  Thinking, Ease, World

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• It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity

  Gilles Deleuze

  Depth, Draws, Extremes

  Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari (2004). “EPZ Thousand Plateaus”, p.249, A&C Black

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• ....to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree.

  Walter M. Miller, Jr.

  Responsibility, Pride, Tree

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• …the samurai ethic is a political science of the heart, designed to control such discouragement and fatigue in order to avoid showing them to others. It was thought more important to look healthy than to be healthy, and more important to seem bold and daring than to be so. This view of morality, since it is physiologically based on the special vanity peculiar to men, is perhaps the supreme male view of morality.

  Yukio Mishima

  Heart, Men, Views

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• Vanity, not love, has been my folly.

  Jane Austen

  Pride And Prejudice Book, Folly, Has Beens

  Jane Austen (1819). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel”, p.166

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• In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates.

  William Hazlitt

  Arrogant, Dull, Cases

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.135

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• Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.

  Aldous Huxley

  Care, Individual, Human Life

  Aldous Huxley (1954). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Point counter point”

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• To say! To know how to say! To know how to exist via the written voice and the intellectual image! This is all that matters in life; the rest is men and women, imagined loves and factitious vanities, the wiles of our digestion and forgetfulness, people squirming — like worms when a rock is lifted — under the huge abstract boulder of the meaningless blue sky.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Love, Men, Rocks

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• It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.

  Edith Wharton

  Believe, Self, Assuming

  Edith Wharton (2013). “House of Mirth and the Age of Innocence”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the task of art to undo this work of theirs, making us travel back in the direction from which we have come to the depths where what has really existed lies unknown within us.

  Marcel Proust

  Art, Lying, Passion

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.300, Modern Library

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• One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Taken, Pride

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• Lois and Alexander are by far the most beautiful creatures in the class; their beauty is like the beauty of plants, seemingly untroubled by vanity, anxiety or effort.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Beautiful, Class, Effort

  Christopher Isherwood, Don Bachardy, James P. White (1989). “Where Joy Resides: An Isherwood Reader”, Vintage

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• I got out of the tub and had to squelch a scream when I saw my reflection in the vanity mirror. My hair looked like it had taken 2000 volts and been spray starched

  Janet Evanovich

  Taken, Reflection, Hair

  Janet Evanovich (1999). “One For The Money: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. The hour, some little time before sunset, and the place, the West Barricade, at the very spot where, a decade later, a proud tyrant raised an undying monument to the nation's glory and his own vanity.

  Baroness Orczy

  Hate, Passion, Sunset

  Baroness Orczy (2015). “The Scarlet Pimpernel”, p.5, Xist Publishing

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• Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.

  Joseph Conrad

  Memories, Passion, Play

  Joseph Conrad (2005). “Selected Works of Joseph Conrad”, p.225, Wordsworth Editions

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• Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Simple, Ego, Vain

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau “Jean-Jacgues Rousseau Emile or On Education”, Рипол Классик

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• I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is not self denial. Love is not blood and suffering. Love is not murdering your son to appease your own vanity. Love is not hatred or wrath, consigning billions of people to eternal torture because they have offended your ego or disobeyed your rules. Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and admiration, compassion and kindness, freely given by a healthy, unafraid human being.

  Dan Barker

  Love, God, Christian

  Dan Barker (2009). “Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists”, p.89, Ulysses Press

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