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"The fact that we don't know this man, isn't important really. Cause his experience is our experience, and his fate is our fate. Vani tass, vani tatum, et omni i vani tass, says the preacher. All is vanity I think that's a pretty good epitaph for all of us. When we're stripped of all our worldly possessions and all our fame, family, friends, we all face death alone. But it's that solitude in death that's our common bond in life. I know it's ironic, but that's just the way things are. Vani tass, vani tatum, et omni i vani tass. Only when we understand all is vanity, only then, it isn't." »Andrew Schneider
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"Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay." »Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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"When men will not be reasoned out of a vanity, they must be ridiculed out of it." »L?Estrange
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"vanity is the quicksand of reason." »George Sands
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"I have always found that angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise." »William Blake, Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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"If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living." »Leo Tolstoy
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"Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification." »Alice Thomas Ellis
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"vanity makes us do more things against inclination than reason." »Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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"Offended vanity is the great separator in social life." »Arthur Helps
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"We should all have the freedom to die with majesty in an unworthy life which was subjected to sin and vanity." »Sorin Cerin
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"The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead." »Sir George Savile
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"Our entire life worth's less than one moment of the absolute's truth vanity." »Sorin Cerin
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"I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake of divine vanity." »Kedar Joshi
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"There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed-the four-poster-I'll be needing that to die in." »Helen Hayes
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"No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library." »Samuel Johnson
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"Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast." »Logan Pearsall Smith
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"The real and genuine wisdom that man can benefit most is the one which leads to everlasting happiness after death ,anything else is vanity." »adelkeri
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"It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live, than to be loved by them. And this is not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love." »Sir Arthur Helps
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"When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity-but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial." »Joyce Carol Oates
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"It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to all." »Heinrich Heine
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"Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy." »Jean de la Bruyere
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"The truest characters of ignorance Are vanity, pride, and arrogance; As blind men use to bear their noses higher Than those that have their eyes and sight entire." »Butler
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"Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity." »Henry Bromel
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"Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride." »Charles Caleb Colton
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"To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite beings. Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive." »James Boswell
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"But pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty." »George Eliot, Middlemarch, Ch 8
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"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did." »T. E. Lawrence, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
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"The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words." »Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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"My father said, 'Politics asks the question Is it expedient vanity asks Is it popular But conscience asks Is it right'" »Dexter Scott King
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"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." »Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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