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Quotes About Vanity

Kogu inimkond on nii vastik rämps ja park, et mind solvata võiks, kui näiksin neile tark.
~ Moliere
Author A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.
~ Montesquieu
He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He who seeks gratification shall be disappointed. He who considers himself the servant of his fellow beings shall find the joy of self-expression. He who seeks self-expression shall fall into the pit of arrogance.
~ Moshe Safdie
1. The higher the ego, pride, vanity, the more insecure a person feels, it seems to him that he becomes smaller and tries to rise. 2. The saints will die out; only the most sinful will survive in natural selection. 3. Love is an interdimensional chrono-connection that has a quantum thread of memories between lives extending into the infinity of eternity. No matter what the timing of life, love never dies to the end. Author: Musin Almat Zhumabekovich
~ Unknown
Lust will die from a decrease in hormones. Anger will die of maturity. Gluttony will die of disease and despair. Pride and vanity will die of loneliness. Despondency will die from being bored. Greed will die of love. Envy will die of humility. Human vices are the folly of youth.
~ Unknown
Rap beat from the sound of the engine tuk so tuvrum tuvrum tuk so vroom vroom vroom vroom so Tuuuu dum tuu tuu tutu tutu dum. Vanity is an open bird's tail from the included spotlights.
~ Unknown
Vanity and pride are autistic complexes.
~ Unknown
Vanity is infantilism in a skipping rope, the main thing here is imagination.
~ Unknown
A fool is one who goes around boasting of having read many books, after having read them only once.
~ Unknown
Besides seeking the continued attention of others, the other way to gain fame is to despise it.
~ Unknown
There is nothing beneficial in pride, simply because too much of it will lead to arrogance and tyranny.
~ Unknown
How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence. It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display.
~ Nadeem Aslam
Are your eyelashes like your hair?" "Yes. They're very beautiful—want to see?" Her lips twitched. "Vanity is a sin,Bluebell." "When you have it, flaunt it, I say." -Elena and Illium
~ Nalini Singh
It is a funny thing how much more proud people can be of themselves if they never step back and take a good look in the glass.
~ Unknown
is a funny thing how much more proud people can be of themselves if they never step back and take a good look in a glass.
~ Nancy E. Turner
When man is no longer his own master, custodian of his own silly vanities and childish contentments he's nothing at all—being in the first place only an agent of a very experimental stage of organic free will
~ Nancy Milford
I have often noticed that when women look at themselves in every reflection, and take furtive peeps into their looking-glasses, it is hardly ever, as is generally supposed, from vanity, but much more often from a feeling that all is not quite as it should be
~ Nancy Mitford
The first step in conforming our intellect to God's truth is to die to our vanity, pride, and craving for respect from colleagues and the public. We must let go of the worldly motivations that drive us, praying to be motivated solely by a genuine desire to submit our minds to God's Word - and then to use that knowledge in service to others.
~ Nancy Pearcey
Fashion condemns us to many follies; the greatest is to make ourselves its slave.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
This mortal life decays apace How soon the bubble's broke Adam and all his numerous race Are Vanity and Smoke.
~ Nathaniel Philbrick
Cao reveled in the acclaim and the prospect of a general's stars. "I kill fifty Viet Cong today," he would announce to reporters coming to the command post. He began to learn the public relations game perhaps too well.
~ Neil Sheehan
Jim Morrison had star quality and he's dead. Star quality's no good to you when you're dead.
~ Unknown