Vanity Quotes

A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.

If all were perfect Christians, individuals would do their duty; the people would be obedient to the laws, the magistrates incorrupt, and there would be neither vanity nor luxury in such a state.

I don't really lift weights. It's kind of a vanity thing that I don't get into.

All is vanity and everybody's vain. Women are terribly vain. So are men - more so, if possible.

She neglects her heart who too closely studies her glass.

Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it.

Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession.

Only men of considerable vanity write books; consistently therewith, I worried lest the world were exchanging an irreplaceable author for a more easily purchased diplomat.

The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope.

The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious.

To bless thine enemy is a good way to satisfy thy vanity.

I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together.

Most of us would be far enough from vanity if we heard all the things that are said about us.

There is no limit to the vanity of this world. Each spoke in the wheel thinks the whole strength of the wheel depends upon it.

Vanity is a strange passion; rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices.

Aside from my love of animation, as an actor I like the total lack of vanity in terms of not having to worry at all about your appearance. You don't have to deal with hair or makeup or wardrobe.

The idea of Kanye and vanity are like, synonymous. But I've put myself in a lot of places where a vain person wouldn't put themselves in. Like what's vanity about wearing a kilt?

God's greatest thirst and his greatest sin is his ultimate vanity.

God is the only evil. His vanity made him the devil.

A fundamental condition of Being is slavery. Man is the slave of God, and God that of His vanity.

I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake of divine vanity.

Philosophy is the only excuse God has for his cruelty and vanity.

The mother of creation is vanity.

You have no idea what portrait painters suffer from the vanity of their sitters.

Vanity is a silly thing to be obsessed with because... it sounds cliché but it leads you to emptiness; it goes away.

Some have lavish garments, carry sharp swords, and feast on food and drink. They possess more than they can spend. This is called the vanity of robbers. It is certainly not the Way.

One's own vanities and humiliations I find a delicious subject for conversation. Things said of me behind my back I don't enjoy, and don't listen to them.

When women smoke, it is hard for them to quit because they are so worried about their weight; it's a vanity issue and a mindset.

'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give, No hollow aid; alone - man with God must strive.

If I ever tried to take credit for what God deserves the credit, He would be displeased with me, and I'm more interested in pleasing Him than pleasing ego or vanity.

Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair.

Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.

It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't; It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them.

The vanity of shining in conversation is usually subversive of its own desires.

The only way not to worry about the race problem is to be doing something about it yourself. When you are, natural human vanity makes you feel that now the thing is in good hands.

One of the main goals of self-education is to eradicate that vanity in us without which we would never have been educated.

I have a Google alert for myself - it's pure vanity.

All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics.

One can never outlive one's vanity.

Healthy vanity sweeps through life. Sickly vanity lies in bed.

When we see the bankruptcy, slavery, and vanity of everything else, we can finally say, ‘To die is gain.’

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

I am vain. I think vanity is a good thing. It's done more good things for me than it has not.

Being an MP feeds your vanity and starves your self- respect.

I'm not motivated by vanity, glory or the quest for power.

Men do not take to vanity, because they are taught at an early age that it is wrong to be vain.

Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.

O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!

It's very nice to be in a show where your vanity is completely out of the picture.

I'm not sure if guys are supposed to read Vanity Fair. I feel very metrosexual with it but am not sure it's in my comfort zone.