Vanity Quotes

Vanity Quote of the day

Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.

Let us, therefore, foresake the vanity of the crowd and their false teachings, and turn back to the word delivered to us from the beginning.

Listen to your heart and not your ego. Your ego prompts you to boast of vain assertions to obtain the glory of this world. Turn away from vanity and seek Him in the recesses of your heart and soul

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

Vanity: my favorite sin.

Despite my vanity, I fear for my sanity.

To write well and speak well is mere vanity if one does not live well.

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

The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.

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

In my opinion, better far it be To destroy vanity within my life Than to destroy my life in vanity.

You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.

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.

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

Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.

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

A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.

There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain.

My father said, Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?

It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all.

Prayer reveals to souls the vanity of earthly goods and pleasures. It fills them with light, strength and consolation; and gives them a foretaste of the calm bliss of our heavenly home.

Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.

Purpose without virtue is vanity.

Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its services a kind word or an approving smile.

Men have had the vanity to pretend that the whole creation was made for them, while in reality the whole creation does not suspect their existence.

Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.

I hate the countrie's dirt and manners, yet I love the silence; I embrace the wit; A courtship, flowing here in full tide. But loathe the expense, the vanity and pride. No place each way is happy.

There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.

If you have to tell them who you are, you aren't anybody.

Let us think often that our only business in this life is to please God. Perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity.

Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others.

Hair brings one’s self-image into focus; it is vanity’s proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices

I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Love is that enviable state that knows no envy or vanity, only empathy and a longing to be greater than oneself.

You think you can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. . . . . We've been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.

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

Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.

Guard against that vanity which courts a compliment, or is fed by it.

The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith.

I don't need glasses, but I've just reached the age where curiosity is greater than vanity.

Incivility is not a Vice of the Soul, but the effect of several Vices; of Vanity, Ignorance of Duty, Laziness, Stupidity, Distraction, Contempt of others, and Jealousy.

Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.

I believe in glamour. I am in favor of a little vanity. I don't rely on just my genes. Looking good is a commitment to yourself and to others.

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.

Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth.

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.

The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood works, is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy, that it often dupes itself.