It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where 't is kept is lighter than vanity. Votes: 6
John BunyanVanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. Votes: 6
George EliotMost people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves. Votes: 4
Benjamin FranklinThere are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it. Votes: 4
Mark TwainThe only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that's laughable is vanity. Votes: 4
Henri BergsonThey say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid. Votes: 4
Ambrose BierceVanity remains a feeble weaponThe delusional wearer of it considers herself strong Votes: 3
Sreesha DivakaranVanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste. Votes: 3
Francois de La RochefoucauldVanity bids all her sons be brave, and all her daughters chaste and courteous. Votes: 3
Laurence SterneVanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business. Votes: 3
Thomas Chandler HaliburtonVanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra. Votes: 3
Blaise PascalVanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous. Votes: 3
Baron de MontesquieuVanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything. Votes: 3
Taylor SwiftVanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable. Votes: 3
Alfred de MussetVanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels. Votes: 3
St. JeromeVanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad. Votes: 3
Eric Riesthose Women who boast the Affections of their Admirers, have a greater share of Vanity than Love ... Votes: 3
Eliza HaywoodVanity is a strange passion; rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices. Votes: 3
Josh BillingsFor my type of story and my kind of writing, I think 'Vanity Fair' is the right forum. Votes: 3
Dominick DunneThe happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure. Votes: 3
Jackie DeShannonVanity is the most despotic and iniquitous of masters, and I can never be the slave of my own vices. Votes: 3
George SandFlattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency. Votes: 2
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own. Votes: 2
Francois de La RochefoucauldOnly vain people wage war against the vanity of others. Votes: 0
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonLight vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareWhat is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldYou must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion. Votes: 0
Gustav MahlerKilling animals to make a fashion statement = a sickening + cold-blooded vanity. Votes: 0
Jess C ScottKilling animals to make a fashion statement = a sickening + cold-blooded vanity. Votes: 0
Jess C. ScottConceit is lovable and unconcealed ; vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden. Votes: 0
Myrtle ReedFlattery is false coin that is only current thanks to our vanity Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldFlattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldPride and vanity have built more hospitals than all the virtues together, Votes: 0
Bernard de MandevilleWhat renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldPride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldWhat makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldTake away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots? Votes: 0
Seneca the YoungerHunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action. Votes: 0
William Graham SumnerThe vanity of shining in conversation is usually subversive of its own desires. Votes: 0
Lydia SigourneyThose who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification. Votes: 0
Alice Thomas EllisFlattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldPower, like vanity, is insatiable. Nothing short of omnipotence could satisfy it completely. Votes: 0
Bertrand RussellOne is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheA man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice. Votes: 0
Walter Savage LandorThe whole vanity aspect of building up different muscles - I have no interest. Votes: 0
Andrew Lincoln... without health to enjoy love, and love to enjoy wealth, is not all vanity? Votes: 0
Ellen Buckingham MathewsOur vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheI feel like all comedy does require a lack of vanity, but multi-cam, especially. Votes: 0
Anna FarisThere is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity. Votes: 0
George WashingtonYou have no idea what portrait painters suffer from the vanity of their sitters. Votes: 0
Kenneth ClarkI am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity. Votes: 0
Gilbert K. ChestertonI believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity. Votes: 0
Lord MountbattenThere is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity. Votes: 0
Nigella LawsonThat which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving. Votes: 0
Theodore ParkerThe most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldBehind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheProvided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity. Votes: 0
Jean-Jacques RousseauA man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity. Votes: 0
Jean-Jacques RousseauWhere would the power of women be, were it not for the vanity of men? Votes: 0
Marie von Ebner-EschenbachBut, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth. Votes: 0
Rebecca Harding DavisA pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon. Votes: 0
Thomas MooreFlattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldVirtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.Francois de La Rochefoucauld Votes: 0
Gabriela PopaPedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity. Votes: 0
Wilkie CollinsIf you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity. Votes: 0
Don DeLilloThe passion of vanity has its own depths in the spirit, and is powerfully militant. Votes: 0
Elizabeth BowenIf vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldIs there any vanity greater than the vanity of those who believe themselves without it? Votes: 0
Carolyn HeilbrunHuman vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution. Votes: 0
Richard DawkinsSpeech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington. Votes: 0
David FrumThe vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead. Votes: 0
George SavilleThe vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead. Votes: 0
George SavileIf boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men? Votes: 0
Vincent Van GoghI don't really lift weights. It's kind of a vanity thing that I don't get into. Votes: 0
Jeremy LondonO vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth! Votes: 0
Mikhail LermontovOne thing House needs Wilson for is vanity. He needs someone to laugh at his jokes. Votes: 0
Hugh LaurieThat which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldOur vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheThe only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity. Votes: 0
Henri BergsonThe market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain! Votes: 0
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHe had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person. Votes: 0
Mark TwainHe that would soothe sorrow must not argue on the vanity of the most deceitful hopes. Votes: 0
Walter ScottImagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity. Votes: 0
Saint AugustineWhere there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonWhat vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power. Votes: 0
Bertrand RussellMan habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity. Votes: 0
Miguel de UnamunoI don't need glasses, but I've just reached the age where curiosity is greater than vanity. Votes: 0
Red SkeltonI am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake of divine vanity. Votes: 0
Kedar JoshiConceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration. Votes: 0
William HazlittHumility counts for much, but it may be that vanity does not dispossess that admirable quality. Votes: 0
Walter J. PhillipsThe hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity. Votes: 0
Eric HofferI think it is vanity to want to put into a story anything but the story itself. Votes: 0
Julio CortazarWhen men will not be reasoned out of a vanity, they must be ridiculed out of it. Votes: 0
Heath L'EstrangeFuneral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldIt's very nice to be in a show where your vanity is completely out of the picture. Votes: 0
Joel KinnamanIt's very nice to be in a show where your vanity is completely out of the picture. Votes: 0
Mireille EnosThe doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope. Votes: 0
John Lancaster SpaldingThe vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheI have always found that Angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise. Votes: 0
Aldous HuxleyI have always liked clothes - throughout my life, my saving grace has been my own vanity. Votes: 0
Anthea TurnerVirtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldIt is a disgrace to let ignorance and vanity do more with us than prudence and principle. Votes: 0
Marcus AureliusA woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry. Votes: 0
William HazlittI used to think getting old was about vanity but actually it's about losing people you love. Votes: 0
Joyce Carol OatesThe vanity of being asked advice often makes us confirm the opinion of those that consult us. Votes: 0
Norm MacDonaldThat was the source of my vanity and my cowardice: always I believed everyone was watching me. Votes: 0
Andre DubusNo place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonThe vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on. Votes: 0
Alexander PopeLadies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. Votes: 0
Charles Caleb ColtonWe crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere. Votes: 0
George SantayanaWe don't have to know,only to be:let go the jumble of worn words,reason and vanity. Votes: 0
Hilda DoolittleGod got the power, man has got his vanity. Man gotta choose before God can set him free. Votes: 0
Bob DylanIt's all about vanity, isn't it? I think it says something about people if they can't do it Votes: 0
Gwendoline RileyThere is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. Votes: 0
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonGold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship. Votes: 0
Franz GrillparzerThere is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. Votes: 0
Edward G. Bulwer-LyttonCast out pride and vanity; have no thought of trying to rule over others or of outdoing them. Votes: 0
Wallace D. WattlesCuriosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it. Votes: 0
Blaise PascalAll is vanity and everybody's vain. Women are terribly vain. So are men - more so, if possible. Votes: 0
Jerome K. JeromeCuriosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off. Votes: 0
Blaise PascalThe man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity. Votes: 0
Thomas CarlyleThere is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation. Votes: 0
Blaise PascalPenetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldHe had the vanity to believe men did not like him " while men simply did not know him. Votes: 0
Gustave FlaubertTalking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds. Votes: 0
Walter RaleighChange of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich. Votes: 0
Nicolas ChamfortI have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity. Votes: 0
Denis DiderotPride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty. Votes: 0
George EliotThey sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity. Votes: 0
Robert SoutheyRight now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad. Votes: 0
Salvador DaliA fundamental condition of Being is slavery. Man is the slave of God, and God that of His vanity. Votes: 0
Kedar JoshiPraise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers. Votes: 0
John BerrymanNo insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity. Votes: 0
Edith WhartonIn their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat. Votes: 0
David HewsonMost of us would be far enough from vanity if we heard all the things that are said about us. Votes: 0
Joseph RickabyAfter I have said what is required by my vanity and my morality, I may find a moment for Truth. Votes: 0
Mason CooleyThere could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all Votes: 0
William SaroyanIn my opinion, better far it be To destroy vanity within my life Than to destroy my life in vanity. Votes: 0
Juana Inés de la CruzThere could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all. Votes: 0
William SaroyanI am vain. I think vanity is a good thing. It's done more good things for me than it has not. Votes: 0
Matthew McConaugheyMen do not take to vanity, because they are taught at an early age that it is wrong to be vain. Votes: 0
Michelle PfeifferThe world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing. Votes: 0
Michel de MontaigneI have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheI think if you try to look for something to show off as an actor, vanity can get the better of you. Votes: 0
Steve CooganWhen I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off. Votes: 3 J. Tillman
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 Jane Austen
I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught. Votes: 4 Jackie Collins