Vanity Quotes

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!

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

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

My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town.

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

I think male actors get confused by their own vanity.

There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.

There's nothing like getting yourself into character and seeing a different person. It really wears on your vanity.

It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am.

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television.

I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness.

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.