Quotes about Vanity

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief. Votes: 7

Vanity of vanities, all is vanity. Votes: 6

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. Votes: 6

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity. Votes: 6

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride. Votes: 6

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man. Votes: 6

It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where 't is kept is lighter than vanity. Votes: 6

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. Votes: 6

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Votes: 6

Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this. Votes: 6

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. Votes: 6

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. Votes: 6

Vanity is but the surface. Votes: 4

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. Votes: 4

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense. Votes: 4

Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves. Votes: 4

There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it. Votes: 4

The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that's laughable is vanity. Votes: 4

They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid. Votes: 4

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Vanitas vanitatum has rung in the ears Of gentle and simple for thousands of years; The wail still is heard, yet its notes never scare Either simple or gentle from Vanity Fair. Votes: 4

Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by vanity only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing. Votes: 4

Vanity prevents improvement Votes: 3

Vanity: my favorite sin. Votes: 3

Vanity is my favourite sin. Votes: 3

Vanity, thy name is vampire. Votes: 3

Vanity often produces unreasonable alarm. Votes: 3

Vanity is often the unseen spur. Votes: 3

Vanity is the quicksand of reason. Votes: 3

Vanity is definitely my favorite sin. Votes: 3

Vanity is easily duped. Ambition, not. Votes: 3

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair. Votes: 3

Vanity and rudeness are seldom seen together. Votes: 3

Vanity is as old as the mammoth. Votes: 3

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life. Votes: 3

Vanity, not love, has been my folly. Votes: 3

Vanity is a motive of immense potency. Votes: 3

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. Votes: 3

We really care about photography at Vanity Fair. Votes: 3

We really care about photography at 'Vanity Fair.' Votes: 3

Vanity well fed is benevolent. Vanity hungry is spiteful. Votes: 3

All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics. Votes: 3

Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible. Votes: 3

Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman. Votes: 3

Vanity is both a great motivator and a great deceiver. Votes: 3

Quomondo sedet sola civitas. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity. Votes: 3

Vanity is so superficial. It doesn't provide the grounds for progress. Votes: 3

Vanity remains a feeble weaponThe delusional wearer of it considers herself strong Votes: 3

Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste. Votes: 3

Vanity's ridiculous, be we all fall prey to it from time to time. Votes: 3

Vanity bids all her sons be brave, and all her daughters chaste and courteous. Votes: 3

Vanity is a mortgage that must be deducted from the value of a man. Votes: 3

Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business. Votes: 3

Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches. Votes: 3

Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous. Votes: 3

Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable. Votes: 3

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything. Votes: 3

Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra. Votes: 3

Vanity, revenge, loneliness, boredom, all apply: lust is one of the least of the reasons for promiscuity. Votes: 3

Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels. Votes: 3

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it. Votes: 3

Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad. Votes: 3

those Women who boast the Affections of their Admirers, have a greater share of Vanity than Love ... Votes: 3

For my type of story and my kind of writing, I think 'Vanity Fair' is the right forum. Votes: 3

Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. Votes: 3

Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right? Votes: 3

Vanity is a strange passion; rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices. Votes: 3

Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions. Votes: 3

Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been. Votes: 3

Vanity is the most despotic and iniquitous of masters, and I can never be the slave of my own vices. Votes: 3

The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure. Votes: 3

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live. Votes: 3

Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere. Votes: 3

My father said, Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right? Votes: 3

Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality. Votes: 3

My dogs.Bill Blass, after being asked "Who or what is the greatest love of your life?" by Vanity Fair magazine" Votes: 3

Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet. Votes: 3

Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate. Votes: 3

My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read. Votes: 3

Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very, very blurred. Votes: 3

Vanity is a relative of Pride; Vanity is talkative, pride is silent. When Vanity and Pride get together, they could make monstrosities. Votes: 3

Vanity is a silly thing to be obsessed with because... it sounds cliché but it leads you to emptiness; it goes away. Votes: 3

Vanity does not refer to the opinion a man entertains of himself, but to that which he wishes others to entertain of him. Votes: 3

Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said more than three thousand years ago. Votes: 3

Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without. Votes: 3

From time to time, just about every Vanity Fair writer has a chance to sell rights to an article or a book to Hollywood. Votes: 3

From time to time, just about every 'Vanity Fair' writer has a chance to sell rights to an article or a book to Hollywood. Votes: 3

Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are! Votes: 3

Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church. Votes: 3

Michael Lewis, author of 'Moneyball,' got special access for a profile of Obama for 'Vanity Fair' - but Obama insisted on redlining his quotes. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Vanity is normal in performers. Does it bother other people? All the time. But nine times out of 10, that says more about them than you. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I'm not sure if guys are supposed to read Vanity Fair. I feel very metrosexual with it but am not sure it's in my comfort zone. Votes: 3

Vanity's really overrated. When I was 20, teenage girls had my picture on the wall... I don't need to be pretty anymore. I just am who I am. Votes: 3

Stupidity talks, vanity acts. Votes: 2

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity. Votes: 2

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride. Votes: 2

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency. Votes: 2

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own. Votes: 2

My greatest vanity is my skin. It is the colour of gingerbread and, thanks to my mother's genes, smooth and mostly blemish-free. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Every actress has to face the facts there are younger, more beautiful girls right behind you. Once you've gone beyond the vanity of the business, you'll take on the tough roles. Votes: 2

Music is made one of Satan's most attractive agencies to ensnare souls; but, when turned to a good account, it is a blessing. When abused, it leads the unconsecrated to pride, vanity, and folly. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science, people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It's bizarre. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

The harming of animals for any reason is shameful, but torturing them for mere vanity is senseless. Slaughtering animals for their fur or harming them for cosmetic purposes is disgusting and not worth the perfect shade of lipstick. Votes: 2

Pride creates a noise within us which makes the quiet voice of the Spirit hard to hear. And soon, in our vanity, we no longer even listen for it. We can come quickly to think we don't need it. Votes: 2

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them. Votes: 2

He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He who seeks gratification shall be disappointed. He who considers himself the servant of his fellow beings shall find the joy of self-expression. He who seeks self-expression shall fall into the pit of arrogance. Votes: 2

At my funeral, if one said, 'Nick was a generous person,' trust me I won't be doing cartwheels in my coffin. Recognition from people is never and never will be a goal. Some people strive for that respect or honor. Living a life to just reach for the position and status is vanity and sin. Votes: 2

Samuel Johnson called it the vanity of human wishes, and Buddhists talk about the endless cycle of desire. Social psychologists say we get trapped on a hedonic treadmill. What they all mean is that we wish, plan and work for things that we think will make us happy, but when we finally get them, we aren't nearly as happy as we thought we'd be. Votes: 2

Religion is the highest vanity. Votes: 0

Ambition is only vanity ennobled. Votes: 0

Purpose without virtue is vanity. Votes: 0

Honor is decency without vanity. Votes: 0

I should have more vanity. Votes: 0

O vanity, mislead no more! Votes: 0

The worst of lusts is vanity. Votes: 0

Censorship is the height of vanity. Votes: 0

The French courage proceeds from vanity Votes: 0

My intellect was my greatest vanity. Votes: 0

One can never outlive one's vanity. Votes: 0

Generosity is the vanity of giving. Votes: 0

Chess is a matter of vanity. Votes: 0

The mother of creation is vanity. Votes: 0

Egotism is the tongue of vanity. Votes: 0

I have a lot of vanity. Votes: 0

All is vanity, nothing is fair. Votes: 0

Through your rags I see your vanity. Votes: 0

Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity. Votes: 0

Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity. Votes: 0

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt. Votes: 0

A coxcomb is four-fifths affectation and one-fifth vanity. Votes: 0

True power and true politeness are above vanity. Votes: 0

No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity. Votes: 0

Depression is the most extreme form of vanity. Votes: 0

There is nothing which vanity does not desecrate. Votes: 0

What is vanity but the longing to survive? Votes: 0

Despite my vanity, I fear for my sanity. Votes: 0

And not a vanity is given in vain. Votes: 0

They who prosper take on airs of vanity. Votes: 0

You sold your soul to feed your vanity.. Votes: 0

moral vanity is the snare of good people. Votes: 0

The highest form of vanity is love of fame. Votes: 0

Offended vanity is the great separator in social life. Votes: 0

A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity. Votes: 0

The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny Votes: 0

People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice. Votes: 0

The idea of Kanye and vanity are like, synonymous. Votes: 0

The offspring of riches Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny Votes: 0

And what after all is everlasting fame? Altogether vanity. Votes: 0

Theres nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity. Votes: 0

The feminine vanity-case is the graveyard of masculine illusions. Votes: 0

The first casualty of hitting rock bottom is vanity. Votes: 0

Virtue was vanity dressed up and waiting for applause. Votes: 0

Is not wounded vanity the mother of all tragedies? Votes: 0

Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit. Votes: 0

Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity. Votes: 0

We speak little if not egged on by vanity. Votes: 0

Your vanity and my vanity will never be friends. Votes: 0

Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity. Votes: 0

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity. Votes: 0

Too much is a vanity; enough is a feast. Votes: 0

The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity. Votes: 0

And yet, after all, what is posthumous fame? Altogether vanity. Votes: 0

There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification. Votes: 0

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity. Votes: 0

All is vanity but to love God and serve Him. Votes: 0

The meaning of life is 'the ultimate questioner's vanity.' Votes: 0

Graveyards remind us of the vanity of all human endeavour. Votes: 0

All is vanity, and discovering it - the greatest vanity. Votes: 0

Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty. Votes: 0

Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself. Votes: 0

hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds. Votes: 0

I think male actors get confused by their own vanity. Votes: 0

We say little, when vanity does not make us speak. Votes: 0

Only vain people wage war against the vanity of others. Votes: 0

Sure I'm cut but not for the sake of vanity... Votes: 0

Healthy vanity sweeps through life. Sickly vanity lies in bed. Votes: 0

Conceit is lovable and unconcealed ; vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden. Votes: 0

Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive Votes: 0

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency. Votes: 0

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance. Votes: 0

God's greatest thirst and his greatest sin is his ultimate vanity. Votes: 0

All politicians have vanity. Some wear it more gently than others. Votes: 0

Killing animals to make a fashion statement = a sickening + cold-blooded vanity. Votes: 0

You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity. Votes: 0

My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely. Votes: 0

Killing animals to make a fashion statement = a sickening + cold-blooded vanity. Votes: 0

What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving. Votes: 0

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion. Votes: 0

I'm not motivated by vanity, glory or the quest for power. Votes: 0

Being an MP feeds your vanity and starves your self- respect. Votes: 0

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company. Votes: 0

False modesty is the refinement of vanity. It is a lie. Votes: 0

... but the greatest wisdom is blinded by the glare of vanity. Votes: 0

It's always our touches of vanity that manage to betray us. Votes: 0

I have a Google alert for myself - it's pure vanity. Votes: 0

God is the only evil. His vanity made him the devil. Votes: 0

Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding. Votes: 0

My vanity and narcissism will never let me go too far. Votes: 0

Flattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity. Votes: 0

The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little. Votes: 0

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Votes: 0

Pride and vanity have built more hospitals than all the virtues together, Votes: 0

What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own. Votes: 0

To bless thine enemy is a good way to satisfy thy vanity. Votes: 0

Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant. Votes: 0

Flattery is false coin that is only current thanks to our vanity Votes: 0

Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity. Votes: 0

Philosophy is the only excuse God has for his cruelty and vanity. Votes: 0

The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects. Votes: 0

Love based upon money and vanity forms the most stubborn of passions. Votes: 0

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. Votes: 0

It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled. Votes: 0

The unforgivable political sin is vanity; the killer diet is sour grapes. Votes: 0

Sharing holiday snaps on social media is an act of arrogant vanity. Votes: 0

All is vanity, look you; and so the preacher is vanity too. Votes: 0

I want to tell you a story. I have no other vanity. Votes: 0

The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat. Votes: 0

Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots? Votes: 0

The vanity of shining in conversation is usually subversive of its own desires. Votes: 0

Our entire life worth's less than one moment of the absolute's truth vanity. Votes: 0

It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure. Votes: 0

Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action. Votes: 0

Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification. Votes: 0

When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more. Votes: 0

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay. Votes: 0

What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own. Votes: 0

Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation. Votes: 0

Guard against that vanity which courts a compliment, or is fed by it. Votes: 0

A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe. Votes: 0

Power, like vanity, is insatiable. Nothing short of omnipotence could satisfy it completely. Votes: 0

... without health to enjoy love, and love to enjoy wealth, is not all vanity? Votes: 0

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman. Votes: 0

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded. Votes: 0

There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity. Votes: 0

The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly. Votes: 0

You have no idea what portrait painters suffer from the vanity of their sitters. Votes: 0

There is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity. Votes: 0

I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity. Votes: 0

I feel like all comedy does require a lack of vanity, but multi-cam, especially. Votes: 0

I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity. Votes: 0

That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving. Votes: 0

The whole vanity aspect of building up different muscles - I have no interest. Votes: 0

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice. Votes: 0

The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down! Votes: 0

VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass. Votes: 0

There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly. Votes: 0

So when I look in the mirror I'm driven by both vanity and fear. Votes: 0

One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity. Votes: 0

If people buy my books for vanity, I consider it a tax on idiocy. Votes: 0

If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity. Votes: 0

The passion of vanity has its own depths in the spirit, and is powerfully militant. Votes: 0

To write well and speak well is mere vanity if one does not live well. Votes: 0

A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon. Votes: 0

But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth. Votes: 0

Where would the power of women be, were it not for the vanity of men? Votes: 0

Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington. Votes: 0

A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity. Votes: 0

Human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution. Votes: 0

If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter. Votes: 0

Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity. Votes: 0

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity. Votes: 0

Is there any vanity greater than the vanity of those who believe themselves without it? Votes: 0

If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television. Votes: 0

Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity. Votes: 0

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.Francois de La Rochefoucauld Votes: 0

But I feel vanity is a part of art and the non-vain are really non-artistic. Votes: 0

I don't need glasses, but I've just reached the age where curiosity is greater than vanity. Votes: 0

Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity. Votes: 0

The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity. Votes: 0

What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power. Votes: 0

Humility counts for much, but it may be that vanity does not dispossess that admirable quality. Votes: 0

Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly. Votes: 0

Europe is... a monument to the vanity of individuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure. Votes: 0

Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration. Votes: 0

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead. Votes: 0

Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth. Votes: 0

Madness designates the equinox between the vanity of night's hallucinations and the non-being of light's judgments. Votes: 0

Imagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity. Votes: 0

I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake of divine vanity. Votes: 0

Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity. Votes: 0

He that would soothe sorrow must not argue on the vanity of the most deceitful hopes. Votes: 0

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead. Votes: 0

I don't really lift weights. It's kind of a vanity thing that I don't get into. Votes: 0

One thing House needs Wilson for is vanity. He needs someone to laugh at his jokes. Votes: 0

That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own. Votes: 0

Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us. Votes: 0

O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth! Votes: 0

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity. Votes: 0

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men? Votes: 0

The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain! Votes: 0

He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person. Votes: 0

It is also the pardonable vanity of lonely people everywhere to assume that they have no counterparts. Votes: 0

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. Votes: 0

The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on. Votes: 0

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not. Votes: 0

What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire. Votes: 0

It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love. Votes: 0

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead. Votes: 0

Most times with vanity projects, publishers don't believe in the work; they just believe in the name. Votes: 0

When men will not be reasoned out of a vanity, they must be ridiculed out of it. Votes: 0

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. Votes: 0

It's very nice to be in a show where your vanity is completely out of the picture. Votes: 0

That was the source of my vanity and my cowardice: always I believed everyone was watching me. Votes: 0

The vanity of being asked advice often makes us confirm the opinion of those that consult us. Votes: 0

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life. Votes: 0

We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere. Votes: 0

A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry. Votes: 0

The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness. Votes: 0

The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity. Votes: 0

I have always found that Angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise. Votes: 0

I have always liked clothes - throughout my life, my saving grace has been my own vanity. Votes: 0

It's very nice to be in a show where your vanity is completely out of the picture. Votes: 0

I used to think getting old was about vanity but actually it's about losing people you love. Votes: 0

Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company. Votes: 0

I think it is vanity to want to put into a story anything but the story itself. Votes: 0

It is a disgrace to let ignorance and vanity do more with us than prudence and principle. Votes: 0

The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope. Votes: 0

Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition. Votes: 0

Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life. Votes: 0

Imperfections would not be half so much taken notice of, if vanity did not make proclamation of them. Votes: 0

Take away a painter's vanity, said a famous landscape painter, and he will never touch a pencil again. Votes: 0

Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind. Votes: 0

There's nothing like getting yourself into character and seeing a different person. It really wears on your vanity. Votes: 0

Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity? Votes: 0

Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them. Votes: 0

Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable. Votes: 0

The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it. Votes: 0

Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame. Votes: 0

Because handsomeness is always accompanied by vanity.And I suppose ugliness is accompanied by a wealth of virtues? Votes: 0

To what gods is sacrificed that rarest and sweetest thing upon earth, friendship? To vanity and to interest. Votes: 0

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic. Votes: 0

Under all wrongdoing lies personal vanity or the feeling that we are endowed and privileged beyond our fellows. Votes: 0

It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism. Votes: 0

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. Votes: 0

It's all about vanity, isn't it? I think it says something about people if they can't do it Votes: 0

God got the power, man has got his vanity. Man gotta choose before God can set him free. Votes: 0

All is vanity and everybody's vain. Women are terribly vain. So are men - more so, if possible. Votes: 0

Cast out pride and vanity; have no thought of trying to rule over others or of outdoing them. Votes: 0

Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off. Votes: 0

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity. Votes: 0

Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it. Votes: 0

There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation. Votes: 0

We don't have to know,only to be:let go the jumble of worn words,reason and vanity. Votes: 0

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. Votes: 0

Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship. Votes: 0

Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon. Votes: 0

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich. Votes: 0

Every man's vanity ought to be his greatest shame; and every man's folly ought to be his greatest secret. Votes: 0

Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds. Votes: 0

The nicest gifts are those left, nameless and quiet, unburdened with love, or vanity, or the desire for attention. Votes: 0

With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins. Votes: 0

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage. Votes: 0

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty. Votes: 0

I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity. Votes: 0

Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul. Votes: 0

He had the vanity to believe men did not like him "“ while men simply did not know him. Votes: 0

What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive it! Votes: 0

Praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers. Votes: 0

Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard. Votes: 0

That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments.... Votes: 0

No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity. Votes: 0

In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat. Votes: 0

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy. Votes: 0

[On vanity:] The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the face of the earth would have changed. Votes: 0

A fundamental condition of Being is slavery. Man is the slave of God, and God that of His vanity. Votes: 0

Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe. Votes: 0

The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself. Votes: 0

Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad. Votes: 0

Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity. Votes: 0

They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity. Votes: 0

Roy: The immutable heart of what we are that bleeds through whatever we might become. All else is vanity. Votes: 0

He knows which fighters to steal, how to exploit anyone's vice, vanity or insecurity and make a profit for himself. Votes: 0

Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species. Votes: 0

In my opinion, better far it be To destroy vanity within my life Than to destroy my life in vanity. Votes: 0

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. Votes: 0

Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents Votes: 0

Invest in vanity. Buy stocks in high-profile companies whose products are designed to make you feel good and look good. Votes: 0

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear. Votes: 0

Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them. Votes: 0

Hair brings one's self-image into focus; it is vanity's proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices Votes: 0

advertising confuses values ... By appealing either to fear, or to vanity, or to covetousness, it very skillfully insinuates false values. Votes: 0

My vanity is not remotely physical, it is cerebral. I suppose feeling self-conscious might be a form of vanity, though. Votes: 0

....to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree. Votes: 0

There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all Votes: 0

When we see the bankruptcy, slavery, and vanity of everything else, we can finally say, "˜To die is gain.' Votes: 0

After I have said what is required by my vanity and my morality, I may find a moment for Truth. Votes: 0

If you can change style, why stick to one style? Style is a vanity because it gives you product identification. Votes: 0

I never understand how writers can succumb to vanity - what you work the hardest on is usually the worst. Votes: 0

Most of us would be far enough from vanity if we heard all the things that are said about us. Votes: 0

Like bees around honey. Why are bees so attracted to honey, since they make it? It can only be vanity. Votes: 0

There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all. Votes: 0

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given. Votes: 0

There's a way of filming where you can get rid of the vanity and of trying to make something beautiful. Votes: 0

How heroic to be able to suppress one's vanity to the extent of confessing that the game is too hard. Votes: 0

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly. Votes: 0

Instead of idleness, vanity, or an intellect formed by the spoon-feeding of others, my girls have acquired energy, industry, and independence. Votes: 0

Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly. Votes: 0

Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge. Votes: 0

I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed. Votes: 0

The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything. Votes: 0

Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety. Votes: 0

The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing. Votes: 0

One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear. Votes: 0

Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity. Votes: 0

It is night, And it is vanity, and age Blackens the heart of Adam. Fear, The yellow chirper, beaks its cage. Votes: 0

Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit. Votes: 0

I am vain. I think vanity is a good thing. It's done more good things for me than it has not. Votes: 0

We should all have the freedom to die with majesty in an unworthy life which was subjected to sin and vanity. Votes: 0

Love is that enviable state that knows no envy or vanity, only empathy and a longing to be greater than oneself.... Votes: 0

With what hope can we endeavor to persuade the ladies that the time spent at the toilet is lost in vanity. Votes: 0

Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things. Votes: 0

I consider it an indubitable mark of mean-spiritedness and pitiful vanity to court applause from the pen or tongue of man. Votes: 0

Men do not take to vanity, because they are taught at an early age that it is wrong to be vain. Votes: 0

Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. Votes: 0

Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism. Votes: 0

It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity Votes: 0

I have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did. Votes: 0

I think if you try to look for something to show off as an actor, vanity can get the better of you. Votes: 0

One of the main goals of self-education is to eradicate that vanity in us without which we would never have been educated. Votes: 0

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty. Votes: 0

I think if I was not in love, I would probably let myself go faster. Love gives me the vanity to continue. Votes: 0

...most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same. Votes: 0

As a person I'm perfectly vain, I'm just vainer as an actor about my ability. My acting vanity trumps my human vanity. Votes: 0

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it makes us vain, in fact, of our modesty. Votes: 0

In the vanity of self-consciousness one feels at a long remove above the ordinary love and trustfulness of a simple and pure heart. Votes: 0

Let us think often that our only business in this life is to please God. Perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity. Votes: 0

A man's vanity is more fragile that you might think. It's easy for us to mistake shyness for coldness, and silence for indifference. Votes: 0

It is a rule of creative ability that it does nothing of any value, while it is possessed by this afflatus of vanity. Votes: 0

Gibson Goode to Archy: "You're just being stubborn now. Stubbornness in the service of a mistaken notion is a vanity and a sin. Votes: 0

There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain. Votes: 0

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality. Votes: 0

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality. Votes: 0

The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases. Votes: 0

It is the vanity of women to spend hours in front of the mirror. It is the vanity of men not to bother. Votes: 0

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality? Votes: 0

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them. Votes: 0

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly. Votes: 0

In luck or out the toil has left its mark: That old perplexity an empty purse, Or the day's vanity, the night's remorse. Votes: 0

There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little. Votes: 0

I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years. Votes: 0

We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries more weight than our self-interest. Votes: 0

Every man is sensitive. Some cover it up with brutality, others with cowardice and vanity, but a small few wear it bravely like armor Votes: 0

Women that can work a camera with ease often work men just as effortlessly for both require the same commitment to vanity and manipulation. Votes: 0

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need. Votes: 0

Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation. Votes: 0

I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries. Votes: 0

If you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them. Votes: 0

What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give. Votes: 0

If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to. Votes: 0

In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanity Votes: 0

The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away. Votes: 0

When we live our lives not for vanity, but for the sake of God and the betterment of humanity, that's what gives us immortality. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger. Votes: 0

If you want to succeed in the world it is necessary, when entering a salon, that your vanity should bow to that of others. Votes: 0

Children live in the same world we do. To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just naive it's a vanity. Votes: 0

People think they can tame the earth. How absurd! The vanity of human wishes is endless. It is more fun to dance with life. Votes: 0

Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many a morality. Votes: 0

Envy is the reverse side of a coin called vanity - Nobody is ever envious of others who is not first proud of himself. Votes: 0

'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give, No hollow aid; alone - man with God must strive. Votes: 0

Every one at the bottom of his heart cherishes vanity; even the toad thinks himself good-looking,--"rather tawny perhaps, but look at his eye! Votes: 0

The courage of a great many men, and the virtue of a great many women, are the effect of vanity, shame, and especially a suitabletemperament. Votes: 0

Let us, therefore, foresake the vanity of the crowd and their false teachings, and turn back to the word delivered to us from the beginning. Votes: 0

It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world. Votes: 0

There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity, arrogance and pride. Votes: 0

Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at. Votes: 0

There is no limit to the vanity of this world. Each spoke in the wheel thinks the whole strength of the wheel depends upon it. Votes: 0

Most frequently we make confidants from vanity, a love of talking, a wish to win the confidence of others, and to make an exchange of secrets. Votes: 0

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." Votes: 0

For me the motley and the bauble, yea, Though all be vanity, as the Preacher saith, The mirth of love be mine for one brief breath! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own beneficence. Votes: 0

I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance. Votes: 0

I do think about aging. I have those moments of panic and vanity, but life keeps getting better, so you can't worry about it too much. Votes: 0

Nobody sets out to make a bad film, but so many of those compromises are made and often they're made because of vanity, pride and ego. Votes: 0

Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom. Votes: 0

It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't; It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them. Votes: 0

Beauty is a great gift of heaven; not for the purpose of female vanity, but a great gift for one who loves, and wishes to be beloved. Votes: 0

I have a healthy sense of vanity. I like to look good for myself, which is what a lot of women say. I want to stay fit. Votes: 0

I don't mind women who want to act. That's fine. It's odd that men want to act, in that there's still a degree of vanity associated with it. Votes: 0

Working out has always been a stress reliever for me. I don't know if it's so much vanity as it more just keeps my mind from going crazy. Votes: 0

And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence Votes: 0

I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, at least the facelift wasn't vanity, but the hair was. Votes: 0

I am simply not such a slave to my vanity, and I don't want to be, because as you get older you really have to start accepting the inevitable. Votes: 0

It's the ones who can't let go - of fear or anger, lust or greed, vanity or pride or power - who are most at risk of becoming corrupted. Votes: 0