Vanity Quotes

I never understand how writers can succumb to vanity - what you work the hardest on is usually the worst.

Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.

People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.

Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.

What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.

The most effectual way to be deceived is to believe oneself more cunning than one's neighbors.

This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave; it is but misery, vanity, and folly; a phantom--the very fashion of which "passeth away.

Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.

What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the ambitions, the fear, and the enraptured and terrified folly of mankind?

Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality.

Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.

One thing House needs Wilson for is vanity. He needs someone to laugh at his jokes.

Graveyards remind us of the vanity of all human endeavour.

False modesty is the refinement of vanity. It is a lie.

Ambition is only vanity ennobled.

It is also the pardonable vanity of lonely people everywhere to assume that they have no counterparts.

Either you are so underdeveloped that you can't see all that you can do, or you won't sacrifice your ease, your vanity, or whatever it is, to do it.

Children live in the same world we do. To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just naive it's a vanity.

Ecclesiastes said that "all is vanity," Most modern preachers say the same, or show it By their examples of true Christianity: In short, all know, or very short may know it.

Vanity well fed is benevolent. Vanity hungry is spiteful.

After I have said what is required by my vanity and my morality, I may find a moment for Truth.

Your vanity and my vanity will never be friends.

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

Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its own. It proclaims itself for what it is.

The vanity of being asked advice often makes us confirm the opinion of those that consult us.

I think if I was not in love, I would probably let myself go faster. Love gives me the vanity to continue.

The desire to be the object of public attention is weak, but the excessive dread of it is but a form of vanity and over-self-contemplativeness.

I think male actors get confused by their own vanity.

All is vanity but to love God and serve Him.

It was needless, after this, to say that all was vanity and vexation of spirit; for it is impossible to derive happiness from the company of those whom we deprive of happiness.

It's not vanity, because if you look weird, it will distract from what your trying to do. If you look as good as you can, people will be able to pay attention to what your actually saying.

Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe.

Humility counts for much, but it may be that vanity does not dispossess that admirable quality.

A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry.

Everybody in Vanity Fair must have remarked how well those live who are comfortably and thoroughly in debt; how they deny themselves nothing; how jolly and easy they are in their minds.

Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.

Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

No one looks or feels attractive when angry.

A part of me genuinely wanted to be the worst because I was so sick of everyone fighting to be the best.

There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.

Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?

Lockhart'll sign anything if it stands still long enough.

We all know you're beautiful, Scott.

The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.

So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dramas learned by their ancestors æons ago.

I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not.

[He] didn’t like to think of himself as vain, but there were definitely times when he wished there was someone on hand to take his photograph.

I was good at being charming, one of my very few vanities.

But I feel vanity is a part of art and the non-vain are really non-artistic.