Vanity Quotes
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Vanity Quotes & Sayings
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Your vanity and my vanity will never be friends.
— Mason Cooley
That was the source of my vanity and my cowardice: always I believed everyone was watching me.
— Andre Dubus
It seemed only right that beauty was the key to the industry, and the sacrificing of beauty to buy possessions seemed only fair to her evolving mind.
— Esther Dalseno
Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.
— Helen Rowland
Humility, never me; it is a characteristic I expect to find in other people.
— Elizabeth Taylor
I felt how much better and more dignified it was for me to show off the finer side of my soul than of my body.
— Leo Tolstoy
The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope.
— John Lancaster Spalding
I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries.
— Pablo Picasso
Confidence cannot escalate to arrogance, it only happens if the blood of pride is running through your veins.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Most frequently we make confidants from vanity, a love of talking, a wish to win the confidence of others, and to make an exchange of secrets.
— Francois Alexandre Frederic, Duc De La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
It is often nothing but our own vanity that decieves us
— Jane Austen
It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
What is vanity but the longing to survive?
— Miguel De Unamuno
Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
It is the vanity of women to spend hours in front of the mirror. It is the vanity of men not to bother.
— Simon Munnery
Take away a painter's vanity, said a famous landscape painter, and he will never touch a pencil again.
— Walter J. Phillips
Why was he opening the doors to my vanity? I kept my tampons down there! He could see them! They were right at the front for easy accessibility!
— Kristen Ashley
158. - Flattery is base coin to which only our vanity gives currency.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
I doubt if there ever was a man who was not gratified by being told that he was liked by the women.
— Samuel Johnson
Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics.
— Lord Chesterfield
There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity.
— Samuel Johnson
It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber.
— William Shakespeare
Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
— Jonathan Swift
Vanity and superficiality, placed deliberately on display, can be a burden; take this nonsense overboard.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about.
— Bertrand Russell
Don't be vain. What you look like doesn't matter. It's the deed that matters.
— Sarah Addison Allen
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
All is vanity, and discovering it - the greatest vanity.
— Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
That is the flaw in my personality. Vanity. And your flaw is sentimentality. They are the flaws which will inevitably kill us both.
— John D. MacDonald
Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.
— Margaret Atwood
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive it!
— Edwin Balmer
Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.
— David Frum
Fame is vanity's bait.
— Toba Beta
Being an MP feeds your vanity and starves your self- respect.
— Matthew Parris
The exceeding delight we take in talking about ourselves should give us cause to fear that we are giving but very little pleasureto our listeners.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments ...
— Samuel Johnson
Your dissatisfaction with yourself speaks of a self-absorption, a vanity, which always gets in the way of your truly coming to rejoice in life.
— Matias Dalsgaard
Continual intellectual study results in vanity and the false satisfaction of an undigested knowledge.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that ... for that, I would give my SOUL for that.
— Oscar Wilde
Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.
— Richard Steele
Guard against that vanity which courts a compliment, or is fed by it.
— Thomas Chalmers
When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more.
— Amelie Nothomb
I had only four hairs worth shaving, but I managed to inflict five cuts attempting to remove them.
— Troy Soos
Oh, the cares of men! how much emptiness there is in human concerns!
— Aulus Persius Flaccus
Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.
— George Eliot
The courage of a great many men, and the virtue of a great many women, are the effect of vanity, shame, and especially a suitabletemperament.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Envy! Envy is the reverse side of a coin called vanity. Nobody is ever envious of others who is not first proud of himself.
— John R.W. Stott
Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
One can never outlive one's vanity.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
— Baron De Montesquieu
Vanity is as old as the mammoth.
— W. L. George
What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
— Francis Bacon
Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.
— William Ellery Channing
Those who are vain have little ability to feel grateful.
— Mark Helprin
Children live in the same world we do. To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just naive it's a vanity.
— Lionel Shriver
To abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree.
— Walter M. Miller Jr.
Honor is decency without vanity.
— Arthur Koestler
The ultimate philosophical truth is this: Without Christ, all is vanity even when it's easy; with Him, all is well even when it's hard.
— Robert J. Morgan
It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.
— Baron D'Holbach
We must remember that possession of physical beauty can easily weaken the moral faculty.
— Frank Tallis
Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
— Pliny The Elder
The stupidest people suddenly become a little cleverer when we learn that they think well of us
— Jude Morgan
Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety.
— Stephen Young
The judgments our enemies make about us come nearer to the truth than those we make about ourselves.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
If you want to succeed in the world it is necessary, when entering a salon, that your vanity should bow to that of others.
— Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse De Genlis
For me the motley and the bauble, yea,Though all be vanity, as the Preacher saith,
The mirth of love be mine for one brief breath! — Frederic Lawrence Knowles
Like all vain men, he had moments of unreasonable confidence.
— Warren Eyster