Vanity Quotes - Page 25

• With what hope can we endeavor to persuade the ladies that the time spent at the toilet is lost in vanity.

  Samuel Johnson

  Toilets, Lost, Endeavor

  Samuel Johnson (1811). “Works”, p.368

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• To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

  Margot Asquith

  Marriage, Strong, Character

  Margot Asquith (1920). “The Autobiography of Margot Asquith”

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• Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

  Helen Rowland

  Marriage, Men, Society

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.73, Lulu.com

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• Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies.

  Thomas Paine

  Age, Generations, Ridiculous

  Thomas Paine (1996). “Rights of Man”, p.9, Wordsworth Editions

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• Until the Donkey tried to clear The Fence, he thought himself a Deer.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Deer, Donkey, Fence

  Arthur Guiterman (1924). “A Poet's Proverbs: Being Mirthful, Sober, and Fanciful Epigrams on the Universe, with Certain Old Irish Proverbs, All in Rhymed Complets”, New York, E.P. Dutton [1924]

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• Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

  Abraham Cowley

  People, Solitude, World

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• To bless thine enemy is a good way to satisfy thy vanity.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Enemy, Way, Bless

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• My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read.

  Richard Avedon

  House, Parent, Saws

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• Oh Lord, give us a sense of humor with courage to manifest it forth, so that we may laugh to shame the pomps, the vanities, the sense of self-importance of the Big Fellows that the world sometimes sends among us, and who try to take our peace away.

  Sean O'Casey

  Humor, Self, Giving

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• I have a lot of vanity.

  Jack Nicholson

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• Depression is the most extreme form of vanity.

  Julie Burchill

  Depression, Form, Extremes

  "Growing pains" by Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2004.

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• In my opinion, better far it be To destroy vanity within my life Than to destroy my life in vanity.

  Juana Inés de la Cruz

  Opinion

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• Most of us would be far enough from vanity if we heard all the things that are said about us.

  Joseph Rickaby

  Would Be, Enough, Said

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• Without vanity a writer's work is tepid, and he must accept his vanity as part of his stock in trade and live with it as one of the hazards of his profession.

  Moss Hart

  Hazards, Accepting, Trade

  moss hart (1959). “act one”

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• We all know that a sympathetic and intelligent listener not only flatters our vanity, but also frequently enables us to crystallize our own ideas to the best advantage. Why, then, do we so often refuse to perform this service?

  Thomas F. Wilson

  Intelligent, Ideas, Listening

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• If you have to tell them who you are, you aren't anybody.

  Gregory Peck

  Ifs, Who You Are

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• For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French forms on the other. The choice is between the nullity and vanity of our first efforts, and the developing of a sense of idiom, form, structure, metre, rhythm, line - all the fundamental characteristics of this verbal art.

  James Fenton

  Art, Hands, Effort

  "An Introduction to English Poetry". Book by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2002.

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• Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.

  David Frum

  People, Groups, Speech

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• They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice!

  Shirley Knight

  Nice, Magazines, Want

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• I don't mind women who want to act. That's fine. It's odd that men want to act, in that there's still a degree of vanity associated with it.

  Shane Black

  Men, Mind, Degrees

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. November 9, 2005.

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• If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television. It doesn't do you any favours in terms of showing you what you look like and what your emotions are.

  Clive Anderson

  Looks, Television, Favour

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• If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television.

  Clive Anderson

  Television, Lost, Ifs

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• I think it's good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and begin using your body as an asset or as an extension of your vanity, you've gone too far.

  Peter Coyote

  Thinking, People, Gone

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• The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.

  Jackie DeShannon

  Giving, Stories, Pages

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• Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon.

  John Doerr

  Reader, Wells, Phenomenon

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