Vanity Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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