Vanity Quotes

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is in our follies that we are at one.

My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely.

Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.

Vanity is a relative of Pride; Vanity is talkative, pride is silent. When Vanity and Pride get together, they could make monstrosities.

Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.

Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.

The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.

It's the bane of both the news and sports businesses, both electronic and print - 'You heard it here first!' Who cares? That's nothing but a vanity play. If it's not right, it's garbage.

Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.

I should have more vanity.

That was the source of my vanity and my cowardice: always I believed everyone was watching me.

advertising confuses values ... By appealing either to fear, or to vanity, or to covetousness, it very skillfully insinuates false values.

Vanity often produces unreasonable alarm.

I feel like all comedy does require a lack of vanity, but multi-cam, especially.

Eternity to a child offers goodness, and eternal life to a man is essentially corrupting because it involves a certain amount of vanity to embrace it.

The nicest gifts are those left, nameless and quiet, unburdened with love, or vanity, or the desire for attention.

I have always liked clothes - throughout my life, my saving grace has been my own vanity.

Vanity is apt to inspire contempt, but that becomes immediately tempered by a gentler and more gracious feeling; for the vain man desires to win our approbation, and in this way he flatters us.

Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.

Vanity is easily forgiven, for we are all vain, and even as we laugh at the weakness of others we feel that their vanity has touched the responding chord of our own.

What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power.

Vanity is a motive of immense potency.

One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about.

Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.

That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising to be told that it is foolish to seek greatness; that is most remarkable.

God got the power, man has got his vanity. Man gotta choose before God can set him free.

I'm not invited to the Vanity Fair dinner where they watch the Oscars - or even the Oscars themselves - so I sit at home and watch it with a bunch of close friends.

From time to time, just about every Vanity Fair writer has a chance to sell rights to an article or a book to Hollywood.

Is there any vanity greater than the vanity of those who believe themselves without it?

Vanity is the most dangerous thing about fame.

None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.

I am simply not such a slave to my vanity, and I don't want to be, because as you get older you really have to start accepting the inevitable.

Religion is the highest vanity.

It's always our touches of vanity that manage to betray us.

Lois and Alexander are by far the most beautiful creatures in the class; their beauty is like the beauty of plants, seemingly untroubled by vanity, anxiety or effort.

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

If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television. It doesn't do you any favours in terms of showing you what you look like and what your emotions are.

Not everything you hear about yourself can be considered good publicity. And if you have delicate sensibilities, the currycomb of public imagination frequently rubs your vanities the wrong way.

The near touch of death may be a release into life; if only it will break the egoistic will, and release that other flow.

Without "The Law of Moses" would we all be wandering around like little gods, stealing, raping, and spilling blood whenever our vanity was offended?

What you do is take the power [popularity] gives you - which is very temporary and minor but significant - and use it. The danger is that you use it on a vanity project that no one wants to watch.

Vanity's ridiculous, but we all fall prey to it from time to time.

Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.

Puffballs of vanity when they're not being absurdly violent; wretchedly unhappy in their mental prisons and too stubborn to open the door and escape.

I grew up in a makeup chair, to see! the women around me getting ready was so aspirational, It is about mothers and daughters, a girl watching her mom at a vanity table.

Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self depreciation.

The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it.

The passion of vanity has its own depths in the spirit, and is powerfully militant.

Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable - should persist after the beauty is gone.

... without health to enjoy love, and love to enjoy wealth, is not all vanity?