Vanity Quotes

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television.

I think male actors get confused by their own vanity.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

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

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

I think the industry is oblivious to the fact that most people listen to all kinds of stuff. I personally don't know of anyone who listens to only one genre of music. It's vanity because no one does.

Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.

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.

But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth.

I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness.