Vanity Quotes

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

Now, I'm not saying I'm fashionable, but there are sociological interests that matter to me, things that are theoretical, political, intellectual and also concerned with vanity and beauty that we all think about but that I try to mix up and translate into fashion.

Vanity is as old as the mammoth.

Censorship is the height of vanity.

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

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

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

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

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

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.

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

Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that.

They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

My vanity is not dead. I laugh when I see pictures of myself as I am now-maybe so I won't cry, but just because it is really funny how much I've changed.

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.

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

Now I feel and I say all the time that vanity is, like, long gone. I'm really free of worrying about what I look like, because it's out of my shaky hands. I don't control it. So why would I waste one second of my life worrying about it?

The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.

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

There is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity.

I have a lot of vanity.

In the vanity of self-consciousness one feels at a long remove above the ordinary love and trustfulness of a simple and pure heart.

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.