Vanity Quotes

Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity.

The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders.

Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad.

My most treasured item is the brown leather bag that my mum bought me from a little Italian shop for my 21st. It's supposed to be a vanity bag, but I use it as a handbag.

I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.

The exceeding delight we take in talking about ourselves should give us cause to fear that we are giving but very little pleasureto our listeners.

Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them.

The judgments our enemies make about us come nearer to the truth than those we make about ourselves.

We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

We often brag that we are never bored with ourselves, and are so vain as never to think ourselves bad company.

The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.

Clemency, which we make a virtue of, proceeds sometimes from vanity, sometimes from indolence, often from fear, and almost always from a mixture of all three.

If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.

Flattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity.

Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.

Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind.

Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.

The courage of a great many men, and the virtue of a great many women, are the effect of vanity, shame, and especially a suitabletemperament.

Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.

Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity.

For me the motley and the bauble, yea, Though all be vanity, as the Preacher saith, The mirth of love be mine for one brief breath!

People think they can tame the earth. How absurd! The vanity of human wishes is endless. It is more fun to dance with life.

I have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did.

One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.

Is not wounded vanity the mother of all tragedies?

Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.

He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity of despising himself.

Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many a morality.

One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.

For some natures, changing their opinions is just as much a requirement of cleanliness as changing their clothes: for others, however, it is merely a requirement of vanity.

Gray hairs are death's blossoms.

Vanity is the most despotic and iniquitous of masters, and I can never be the slave of my own vices.

I consider it an indubitable mark of mean-spiritedness and pitiful vanity to court applause from the pen or tongue of man.

Instead of idleness, vanity, or an intellect formed by the spoon-feeding of others, my girls have acquired energy, industry, and independence.

Most times with vanity projects, publishers don't believe in the work; they just believe in the name.

I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity.

The greatest thing that prepared me for editing Vanity Fair was having four kids because you just learn to subjugate your ego with the greater interest in mind.

I imagine my children are going to save me from my vanity and be my passion and fill whatever fears I have of the amazing time I'm having right now being gone.

There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little.

When men will not be reasoned out of a vanity, they must be ridiculed out of it.

Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last.

Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation.

Vanity, wounded pride, rejection, self-delusion. I could recite a litany of little pinpricks that finally produce a gaping wound. That's how marriages and friendships come apart.

We don't have to know,only to be:let go the jumble of worn words,reason and vanity.

Love based upon money and vanity forms the most stubborn of passions.

He knows which fighters to steal, how to exploit anyone's vice, vanity or insecurity and make a profit for himself.

We value the devotedness of friendship rather as an oblation to vanity than as a free interchange of hearts; an endearing contract of sympathy, mutual forbearance, and respect!

I got out of the tub and had to squelch a scream when I saw my reflection in the vanity mirror. My hair looked like it had taken 2000 volts and been spray starched

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

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. [Fr., Les hommes rougissent moins de leur crimes que de leurs faiblesses et de leur vanite.]