Quotes of: Vanity Keyword

Social media has infected the world with a sickening virus called vanity.

Kellie Elmore

I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake of divine vanity.

Kedar Joshi

A dead man’s vanity: his ashes full of life that cannot be deceased before a living being’s pride.

Munia Khan

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

Mark Twain

Pride and vanity, the opposites of humility, can destroy our spiritual health as surely as a debilitating disease can destroy our physical health.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.

Pierce Brosnan

Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.

Elizabeth Smart

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

Franz Kafka

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Spirit of God breathes inspiration, while the carnal mind breeds vanity.

Fred C. White

Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.

Charles James

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

Joanna Baillie

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

George Savile

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

David Frum

[last lines] John Milton: Vanity, definitely my favorite sin.

The Devil's Advocate

I think comedy and satire are a very important part of democracy, and it's important we are able to laugh at the idiosyncrasies or the follies or vanities of people in power.

Rory Bremner

We should all have the freedom to die with majesty in an unworthy life which was subjected to sin and vanity.

Sorin Cerin

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

Walter Savage Landor

Pride," observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, "is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it it very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that ...

Pride and Prejudice

I was good at being charming, one of my very few vanities.

Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Your self…is other people, all the people you're tied to, and it's only a thread.

The Bonfire of the Vanities