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I feel like all comedy does require a lack of vanity, but multi-cam, especially. — Anna Faris

Mirror Mirror on the Wall,
Who's fairest of them all?
I'm Mona Lisa and She is plain,
But the truth is - we all are Vain. — Saru Singhal

After I have said what is required by my vanity and my morality, I may find a moment for Truth. — Mason Cooley

That was the source of my vanity and my cowardice: always I believed everyone was watching me. — Andre Dubus

I am simply not such a slave to my vanity, and I don't want to be, because as you get older you really have to start accepting the inevitable. — Cherie Lunghi

Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this. — Blaise Pascal

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

I have a lot of vanity. — Jack Nicholson

So have I seen Passion and Vanity stamping the living magnanimous earth, but the earth did not alter her tides and her seasons for that. — Herman Melville

Oh, how happy I am to have found it at last. Yes! It's all vanity, it's all an illusion, everything except that infinite sky. — Leo Tolstoy

I think male actors get confused by their own vanity. — Shirley Maclaine

I'm not sure if guys are supposed to read Vanity Fair. I feel very metrosexual with it but am not sure it's in my comfort zone. — Mohsin Hamid

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

However, I do not forget that everything is vanity, that I need art especially to count the days passing by. — Nicola Samori

Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is. — Dennis Lehane

I think it is vanity to want to put into a story anything but the story itself. — Julio Cortazar

Working out has always been a stress reliever for me. I don't know if it's so much vanity as it more just keeps my mind from going crazy. — Jim Rash

In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanity — Robert Browning

I cannot think it either Vanity or Virtue to acknowledge, that the Acquisition and communication of Knowledge, are the sole Entertainment of my Life — John Adams

Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad. — Salvador Dali

I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance. — Francis Bacon

So when I look in the mirror I'm driven by both vanity and fear. — Andy Whitfield

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly. — Jane Austen

I never understand how writers can succumb to vanity - what you work the hardest on is usually the worst. — Flannery O'Connor

Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity. — Leighton Meester

I'll destroy you. I am the master of disaster. — Muhammad Ali

I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity. — Gustave Flaubert

Sometimes I think that when we say our honour prevents us from doing this or
that we deceive ourselves, and our real motive is vanity. — W. Somerset Maugham

I have a Google alert for myself - it's pure vanity. — Mark Duplass

Why, you are so eaten up with pride and vanity that you'll end by eating up one another, that's what I prophecy. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I'm always reading books - as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply. — Ernest Hemingway,

I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together. — Joseph Hall

I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity. — Denis Diderot

Beg pardon? I detected large deposits of vanity. Vanity is the softest of bedrocks to sink shafts into. — David Mitchell

Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs! — Diana Wynne Jones

I think most people's view is that selfies are just vanity and stupid, but I think they're really great. — Hannah Gadsby

I should have more vanity. — Amy Brenneman

I don't need glasses, but I've just reached the age where curiosity is greater than vanity. — Red Skelton

I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake of
divine vanity. — Kedar Joshi

I have always liked clothes - throughout my life, my saving grace has been my own vanity. — Anthea Turner

I am vain. I think vanity is a good thing. It's done more good things for me than it has not. — Matthew McConaughey

I cried because I was so beautiful. — Victoria Kann

I'm not motivated by vanity, glory or the quest for power. — Michele Bachmann

I don't really lift weights. It's kind of a vanity thing that I don't get into. — Jeremy London

- You may know the value of turbans, but I know how far vanity can lead a man. — Paulo Coelho

I am a vanity eater, a machinelike eater, a suppresser-of-feels eater. — Melissa Broder

Now I feel like James Bond. Suave and intelligent, breaking all the codes while looking fabulous. — Jim Butcher

My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read. — Richard Avedon

Is there a common denominator? I wonder. You know, if there is, I should be inclined to say it is vanity. — Agatha Christie

Through your rags I see your vanity. — Socrates

I was good at being charming, one of my very few vanities. — Jeff Lindsay

But I feel vanity is a part of art and the non-vain are really non-artistic. — Barry Webster

As a person I'm perfectly vain, I'm just vainer as an actor about my ability. My acting vanity trumps my human vanity. — Rufus Sewell

I've loved many women ... I'm not going to lie to you, but it never works ... vanity always gets in the way. — Cassandra Giovanni

Rome took all the vanity out of me,for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in dispare. — Louisa May Alcott

Mr. Darcy, I could honestly forgive his vanity had he not wounded mine. — Jane Austen

Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no other than my own understanding. — Sarah Fielding

I have a healthy sense of vanity. I like to look good for myself, which is what a lot of women say. I want to stay fit. — Thomas Haden Church

I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed. — Benjamin Franklin

Aflame in black ecstasy, orders extinguished:
after death
how will I know my love was true,
this sacrifice not an exercise in vanity? — Phan Ming Yen

A part of me genuinely wanted to be the worst because I was so sick of everyone fighting to be the best. — Criss Jami

Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God. — John Rhys-Davies

I hate to admit it, but governmental deviousness is usually better explained by incompetence, vanity, and the need to protect one's job at all costs. — Jasper Fforde

Ah, now I have learned how deep in the human heart vanity lies, vanity which is the other face of the fear of being unloved. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

My vanity is not remotely physical, it is cerebral. I suppose feeling self-conscious might be a form of vanity, though. — Richard Griffiths

I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, at least the facelift wasn't vanity, but the hair was. — Gary Numan

Pride is love for one's deeds or achievements. Vanity is love for one's ... one, I guess. — Corey Taylor

I enjoy vanity . But I can't stick to any of that lifestyle for too long because, when its true colors come out, it's empty and cold and soulless. — Michelle Rodriguez

I had discarded pride, that useless burden of self-importance I had carried around like my portable vanity with its broken mirror. — Amy Tan

If people buy my books for vanity, I consider it a tax on idiocy. — Umberto Eco

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

I doubt if there ever was a man who was not gratified by being told that he was liked by the women. — Samuel Johnson

I don't mind women who want to act. That's fine. It's odd that men want to act, in that there's still a degree of vanity associated with it. — Shane Black

I will speak in defense of reason: for the very child of vanity is violence. — Aeschylus

If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that ... for that, I would give my SOUL for that. — Oscar Wilde

I had only four hairs worth shaving, but I managed to inflict five cuts attempting to remove them. — Troy Soos

Beauty was all I'd ever cared for. It was all that ever moved me. — Heather Crews

You'll never see my books on Vanity Fair I'm not the type of author they would want there — Stanley Victor Paskavich

For let us women be never so ill-favored, I imagine that we are always delighted to hear ourselves called handsome. — Miguel De Cervantes

I guess I'm larger than life. That's my problem. — Bette Davis

I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years. — Wallace Shawn

Because handsomeness is always accompanied by vanity.
And I suppose ugliness is accompanied by a wealth of virtues? — Lisa Kleypas

Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet. — Margaret Atwood

For my type of story and my kind of writing, I think 'Vanity Fair' is the right forum. — Dominick Dunne

I'm pretty much a goddess around here. — Christopher Healy

I do think about aging. I have those moments of panic and vanity, but life keeps getting better, so you can't worry about it too much. — Jennifer Garner

I think if I was not in love, I would probably let myself go faster. Love gives me the vanity to continue. — Salma Hayek

God gave us laughter, I think, as a balm to wash the wounds of our own blunders, as a splint to mend the bones we break in our rashness or vanity. — Mark Buchanan

I'm amazing and studly, but I have limits. — Jim Butcher

Despite my vanity, I fear for my sanity. — Pseudonymous Bosch

To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life. — Lord Chesterfield

My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely. — Matthew Macfadyen

Vanity's really overrated. When I was 20, teenage girls had my picture on the wall ... I don't need to be pretty anymore. I just am who I am. — Michael J. Fox

I have always found that Angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise. — Aldous Huxley

EPH4.17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, — Anonymous

Say, you told me you thought Les Miserables was the greatest novel ever written. I think Vanity Fair is the greatest. Let's fight. - Joe Willard — Maud Hart Lovelace

Agatha: "If you say anything smug or stuck-up or shallow, I'll have Reaper follow you home."
Sophie: "But then I can't talk! — Soman Chainani

I won't tolerate vanity in a man, though I will in a woman. — Larry McMurtry

If I really seem vain, it is that I am only vain in my ways - not in my heart. The worst women are those vain in their hearts, and not in their ways. — Thomas Hardy