One of the most favorite sayings of all time is – the proud peacock of today, will be the feather duster of tomorrow! Vanity is probably one of the most undesirable virtues in a human being and it is stated as an excessive belief in one’s attractiveness or good looks or other capabilities in general. It is usually an unjustified boasting to others and it may or may not be true. It goes so far sometimes that one believes in themselves as comparable to God. Scan through the next section, for some vanity quotes and sayings.
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Vanity Quotes
Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
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You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
Indira Gandhi |
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If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.
Jean Paul Sartre |
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The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.
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Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
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The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
Aesop |
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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts.
Richard P. Feynman |
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Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills.
Dolly Parton |
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The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's.
George Michael |
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Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
Janis Joplin |
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The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him.
Cher |
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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
Titus |
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Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt.
Lucille Ball |
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Yeah I'm thirty-six, but on the show I'm thirty-two. Nobody wants to watch a thirty-six year old woman, so they decided to make me thirty-two. Much more appealing somehow.
Ellen DeGeneres |
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Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
George Orwell |
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I don't know what it means to be a sex symbol. When I look myself on a magazine cover I don't see it as me, but as someone painted, fluffed, puffed and done up.
Jennifer Aniston |
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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.
Thomas Hardy |
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Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
Edward Abbey |
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No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
John Donne |
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A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.
Christian Dior |
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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
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I think the accessories look very modern and very exciting. These big earrings, these big hoops. I think the girls are sort of falling in love with... collars, neck collars.
Ralph Lauren |
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The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
Graham Greene |
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Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.
David Ogilvy |
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Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.
David Ogilvy |
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All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Spike Milligan |
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Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
Spike Milligan |
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Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.
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The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.
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I have about 100 pairs of pajamas. I like to see people dressed comfortably.
Hugh Hefner |
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Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.
Marianne Williamson |
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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.
John Adams |
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Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.
Pericles |
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I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is "In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.
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I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love.
Joan Crawford |
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I think that the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser.
Joan Crawford |
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We just bought this house. It's too big. It's like 400,000 square feet, or something. We got an indoor lake and ski slope in the house! It's just too big.
Adam Sandler |
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Well, we're living in a material world, and I'm a material girl... or boy.
Adam Sandler |
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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If you play more than two chords, you're showing off.
Woody Guthrie |
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It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.
Jose Marti |
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I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came
Jefferson Davis |
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Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
Samuel Beckett |
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Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
Raymond Chandler |
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Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
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A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.
F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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I've always avoided expressing an opinion about where I think the republican movement should go - if it should go anywhere at all.
Guy Green |
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Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.
Aldo Leopold |
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Not tho' the soldier knew. Someone had blunder'd : Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
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Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.
Charles Lindbergh |
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A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Muhammad Ali |
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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
Jack Kerouac |
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Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.
Jack Kerouac |
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Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.
P. D. James |
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
P. D. James |
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How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become -- to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.
Bill Murray |
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Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.
Thales |
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It's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.
Matt Damon |
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As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.
Jeremy Bentham |
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The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
Michelangelo |
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A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.
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They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
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I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
Francis of Assisi |
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Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.
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His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.
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Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.
Andrew Johnson |
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Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
Alfred North Whitehead |
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A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.
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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.
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What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.
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Vanity is my favorite sin.
Al Pacino |
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We are all tied to our destiny and there is no way we can liberate ourselves.
Rita Hayworth |
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I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity, my name is no longer my own.
River Phoenix |
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
Claude Monet |
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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