Vanity Quotes — Page 32

Philosopher, Writer

“Good deeds shun the light as anxiously as evil deeds: the latter fear that disclosure will bring on pain (as punishment), while the former fear that disclosure will take away pleasure (that pure pleasure, that pleasure per se, which immediately ceases once the vanity's satisfaction is added).”

Light Pain Vanity

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Mark Twain

Writer, Humorist

“We must put up with our clothes as they are - they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us - to advertise what we wear them to conceal. They are a sign; a sign of insincerity; a sign of suppressed vanity; a pretense that we desire gorgeous colors and the graces of harmony and form; and we put them on to propagate that lie and back it up.”

Lying Color Vanity

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Philosopher, Writer, Composer

“A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.”

Men Fool

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Jeremy London

Actor

“I don't really lift weights. It's kind of a vanity thing that I don't get into.”

Kind Vanity

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Mark Twain

Writer, Humorist

“All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics.”

Vanity Metrics Drunkards

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Jane Austen

Novelist

“We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded and circumspect. It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does.”

Men Mean Vanity

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Jane Austen

Novelist

“She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”

Knowing Ignorance Vanity

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Philosopher, Writer, Composer

“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.”

Christian Law Vanity

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

“Vanity is a desire of personal glory, the wish to be appreciated, honoured, and run after, not because of one's personal qualities, merits, and achievements, but because of one's individual existence. At best, therefore, it is a frivolous beauty whim it befits.”

Running Vanity Personal Qualities

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

“Wood burns because it has the proper stuff for that purpose in it; and a man becomes renowned because he has the necessary stuff in him. Renown is not to be sought, and all pursuit of it is vain. A person may, indeed, by skillful conduct and various artificial means, make a sort of name for himself; but if the inner jewel is wanting, all is vanity, and will not last a day.”

Men Mean Vanity

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