Vanity Quotes - Page 32

• Every man's vanity ought to be his greatest shame; and every man's folly ought to be his greatest secret.

  Francis Quarles

  Men, Secret, Shame

  Francis Quarles (1856). “Enchiridion: Containing Institutions Divine Contemplative Practical: Moral Ethical Oeconomical Political”, p.134

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• The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.

  Edmund Burke

  Country, War, Men

  Edmund Burke (1855). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.204

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• Beauty is a great gift of heaven; not for the purpose of female vanity, but a great gift for one who loves, and wishes to be beloved.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Beauty, Heaven, Wish

  Maria Edgeworth (1850). “Helen: A Tale”, p.57

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• One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about.

  Bertrand Russell

  Wish, Trouble, Grows

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.448, Routledge

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• Vanity bids all her sons be brave, and all her daughters chaste and courteous.

  Laurence Sterne

  Daughter, Son, Brave

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• Flattery is an ensnaring quality, and leaves a very dangerous impression. It swells a man's imagination, entertains his vanity, and drives him to a doting upon his own person.

  Jeremy Collier

  Men, Imagination, Quality

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• There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little.

  Hannah More

  Littles, Faults

  Hannah More (1835). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.132

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• It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love.

  Horace Walpole

  Self, Impossible, Difficult

  Horace Walpole (1861). “The Letters of Horace Walpole: Earl of Orford”, p.2

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• The desire to be the object of public attention is weak, but the excessive dread of it is but a form of vanity and over-self-contemplativeness.

  Sara Coleridge

  Self, Desire, Attention

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1874). “Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge”, p.373

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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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• She neglects her heart who too closely studies her glass.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Heart, Glasses, Study

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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 never understand how writers can succumb to vanity - what you work the hardest on is usually the worst.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Worst, Hardest

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.200, Macmillan

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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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