Vanity Quotes

I have a lot of vanity.

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

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.