Vanity Upon Vanity All Is Vanity Quotes

#1. Vanity in an old man is charming. It is a proof of an open, nature. Eighty winters have not frozen him up, or taught him concealments. In a young person it is simply allowable; we do not expect him to be above it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#2. Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#3. Sacred writings are beneficial in stimulating desire for inward realization, if one stanza at a time is slowly assimilated. Continual intellectual study results in vanity and the false satisfaction of an undigested knowledge." Sri

Paramahansa Yogananda

#4. But the greatest wisdom could be blinded by the glare of vanity.

Paulo Coelho

#5. It's always our touches of vanity that manage to betray us.

Christopher Fry

#6. What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power.

Bertrand Russell

#7. Nothing should be so greatly feared as empty fame.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#8. Once in a stately passion I cried with desperate grief
'Oh Lord, my heart is black with guile, of sinners I am chief'
Then stooped my guardian angel and whispered from behind
'Vanity my little man, you're nothing of the kind'

James Thomson

#9. Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

Blaise Pascal

#10. The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope.

John Lancaster Spalding

#11. Adam named every creature in the garden. And we've been paying for his presumption ever since.

Marty Rubin

#12. The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.

Iris Murdoch

#13. Vanity, vanity, nothing but vanity: the itch for naming things is almost as bad as the itch for possessing things.

Edward Abbey

#14. Hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds.

Phyllis Bottome

#15. This nation is like all the others that have been spewed upon the earth
ready to shout for any cause that will tickle its vanity or fill its pocket. What a hell of a heaven it will be when they get all these hypocrites assembled there!
- Letter to J. H. Twichell, 1/29/1901

Mark Twain

#16. The evil effect of science upon men is principally this, that by far the greatest number of those who wish to display a knowledge of it accomplish no improvement at all of the understanding, but only a perversity of it, not to mention that it serves most of them as a tool of vanity.

Immanuel Kant

#17. He had placed himself at her feet so long that the poor little woman had been accustomed to trample upon him. She didn't wish to marry him, but she wished to keep him. She wished to give him nothing, but that he should give her all. It is a bargain not unfrequently levied in love.

William Makepeace Thackeray

#18. Some have lavish garments, carry sharp swords, and feast on food and drink. They possess more than they can spend. This is called the vanity of robbers. It is certainly not the Way.

Laozi

#19. There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is Curiosity.
There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others; that is Vanity.
There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve; that is Love.

Bernard Of Clairvaux

#20. But how can anyone put a bridle on man's vanity and arrogance? But how can Purity walk the earth without covering her feet with mud?

Nikos Kazantzakis

#21. Goliath symbolizes the vanity and the illusions of this world. They disappear in a puff

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#22. Vanity is so constantly solicitous of self, that even where its own claims are not interested, it indirectly seeks the aliment which it loves, by showing how little is deserved by others.

William Gilmore Simms

#23. Don't worry about what others think about you; worry about what they think of themselves when they're with you.

Hilary Weeks

#24. Until the Donkey tried to clear The Fence, he thought himself a Deer.

Arthur Guiterman

#25. She neglects her heart who too closely studies her glass.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#26. If all were perfect Christians, individuals would do their duty; the people would be obedient to the laws, the magistrates incorrupt, and there would be neither vanity nor luxury in such a state.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#27. The stupidest people suddenly become a little cleverer when we learn that they think well of us

Jude Morgan

#28. I just don't get it. You've been in love with this bloke since you were a kid, and he's never once got his hair cut short enough that it doesn't poke him in the damn eye.

Kristina Adams

#29. of light and life, thou Good Supreme! O teach me what is good; teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and fill my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!

Benjamin Franklin

#30. Vanity and prejudice have as usual played havoc with the truth, and Mr. Topper's reputation has been tossed into a furnace of frantically wagging tongues. The

Thorne Smith

#31. In my opinion, better far it be To destroy vanity within my life Than to destroy my life in vanity.

Juana Ines De La Cruz

#32. That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising to be told that it is foolish to seek greatness; that is most remarkable.

Blaise Pascal

#33. Without health to enjoy love, and love to enjoy wealth, is not all vanity?

Ellen Buckingham Mathews

#34. There is nothing which vanity does not desecrate.

Henry Ward Beecher

#35. Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.

James Joyce

#36.
nor had I understood til then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others

Philip Roth