Vanity Quotes - Page 33

• 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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• It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.

  Oscar Wilde

  Successful, Men, Wrecks

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.29, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is a rule of creative ability that it does nothing of any value, while it is possessed by this afflatus of vanity.

  Christina Stead

  Creativity, Creative, Doe

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• If you have a profession that depends on what you look like, you can't blame somebody for caring about that. It's part of their job. So it's vanity but it's also not in a lot of cases. It's being professional.

  James Franco

  Jobs, Caring, Looks

  "Andy Warhol's Interview Interview: James Franco". Interview with Andy Warhol, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 26, 2013.

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• Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fear, Pride, Originality

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.168, Cambridge University Press

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• Just as bones, tissues, intestines, and blood vessels are enclosed in a skin that makes it possible to bear the sight of a human being, so the agitations and passions of the soul are wrapped up in vanity: it is the soul's skin.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Passion, Sight, Blood

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• Whether a man hides his bad qualities and vices or confesses them openly, his vanity wants to gain an advantage by it in both cases: just note how subtly he distinguishes between those he will hide his bad qualities from and those he will face honestly and candidly.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Quality, Vices

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• He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more he loses himself the more he has to endeavor to regain his position by means of the opinion of others.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Self, Alive

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume III”, Lulu.com

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• For some natures, changing their opinions is just as much a requirement of cleanliness as changing their clothes: for others, however, it is merely a requirement of vanity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Change, Clothes, Requirements

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• Good deeds shun the light as anxiously as evil deeds: the latter fear that disclosure will bring on pain (as punishment), while the former fear that disclosure will take away pleasure (that pure pleasure, that pleasure per se, which immediately ceases once the vanity's satisfaction is added).

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Light, Punishment

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• Vanity is easily duped. Ambition, not.

  Mason Cooley

  Ambition, Gullibility

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