Vanity Quotes

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring.

The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity.

The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).

What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.

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

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere.

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

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

Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.

You know, at 35 or at 38 or 40 you really start to see what your body could look like if you just don't do anything all winter long. So that's another motivating factor, our vanity.

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.

I imagine my children are going to save me from my vanity and be my passion and fill whatever fears I have of the amazing time I'm having right now being gone.

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

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people tend to push it away. It's really too close to the quick of the soul.

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.

I think it's good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and begin using your body as an asset or as an extension of your vanity, you've gone too far.

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

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

Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

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.