639 Quotes About Vanity

When conversing, some people regularly stop talking, not to listen, but to rest their tongues.

It is foolish to run risk of going mad for vanity's sake.

The most peaceful souls are lite travelers, acquisitions are burdens, they weigh the soul.

It’s better than anything either Laxness or Thórberger Thordarson write. We might be talking about a new Nobel Prize winner, Hekla.”“Has he had anything published?”“Not yet.

Vanity is such a strange thing. They mourned me, and I was warmed that they loved me.

On another occasion, upon receiving a letter informing him of the death of one of the local gentry which set forth in great detail the deceased's many titles of nobility and those of his family, he exclaimed: "Death has a broad back! What a great load of honours it can be made to bear, and how assiduous are the minds of men that they can use even the tomb in the service of vanity.

One of the reasons why most of us think of ourselves as talented, friendly, wise, and fair-minded is that these words are the lexical equivalents of a Necker cube, and the human mind naturally exploits each word's ambiguity for its own gratification.

Vanity', he said, 'is the curse of our culture; or perhaps it is simply my own persistent refusal', he said, 'to believe that artists are also human beings.

There's a key difference between my worst picture and the worst picture.