Vanity Quotes

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

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

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

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

If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television. It doesn't do you any favours in terms of showing you what you look like and what your emotions are.

Vanity is my favourite sin.

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

'Vanity Fair' caught me at a very exciting time in my life filled with night clubs, international fashion shows, celebrities and lots of cash to go around. Sometimes things just fall into place. 'Vanity Fair' was one of those things.

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

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.

I was really excited to get to shave my head - it's something I'd wanted to do for a while and now I had a good excuse. It was nice to shed that level of vanity.

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

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

Now, I'm not saying I'm fashionable, but there are sociological interests that matter to me, things that are theoretical, political, intellectual and also concerned with vanity and beauty that we all think about but that I try to mix up and translate into fashion.

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

Vanity is as old as the mammoth.

Censorship is the height of vanity.

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

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

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

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.

Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that.

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

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

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

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

My vanity is not dead. I laugh when I see pictures of myself as I am now-maybe so I won't cry, but just because it is really funny how much I've changed.

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

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

Now I feel and I say all the time that vanity is, like, long gone. I'm really free of worrying about what I look like, because it's out of my shaky hands. I don't control it. So why would I waste one second of my life worrying about it?