Vanity Quotes

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

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!

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

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

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.

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

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.

Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity.

Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.

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

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

I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.

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

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

For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town.

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

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

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.

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