Vanity Quotes

When you start becoming really successful, the demons start to tempt you - the demons of vanity and self importance, drug abuse, the feelings of fraudulence. But, it's also a thrill. That's what I found weird.

You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere.

To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.

A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a rougue to retire upon.

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.

What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice!

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.

Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very, very blurred.

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

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity.

Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

When women smoke, it is hard for them to quit because they are so worried about their weight; it's a vanity issue and a mindset.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.

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.

Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.

For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!