Vanity Quotes

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.

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed "Wisdom." And then I know exactly what is going to follow: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity."

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.

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.

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

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

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.

'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.

Vanity is but the surface.

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

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

She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.

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

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.

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

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

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

When you start becoming really successful, the demons start to tempt you - the demons of vanity and self importance, drug abuse, the feelings of fraudulence. But, it's also a thrill. That's what I found weird.

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.

To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

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

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.

What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.

They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice!