Vanity Quotes
Nature has cast but two men in the mould of statesmen,--myself and Mirabeau. After that she broke the mould.
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.
It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.
We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.
Most frequently we make confidants from vanity, a love of talking, a wish to win the confidence of others, and to make an exchange of secrets.
While you are still beautiful and life still woos, it is such a fine gesture of disdainful pride to jilt it.
The pain others give passes away in their later kindness, but that of our own blunders, especially when they hurt our vanity, never passes away
The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
I'm not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity.
For let us women be never so ill-favored, I imagine that we are always delighted to hear ourselves called handsome.
Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
I used to think getting old was about vanity but actually it's about losing people you love.
Egocentricity: The vanity that makes you wonder what people are thinking about you when they are really wondering what you are thinking about them.
To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.
There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery.
What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!
That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving.
Vanity and narcissism — the compulsive need to be admired and praised — undermine one's courage, for one then fights on someone else's conviction rather than one's own.
Killing animals to make a fashion statement = a sickening + cold-blooded vanity.
God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.
Every actress has to face the facts there are younger, more beautiful girls right behind you. Once you've gone beyond the vanity of the business, you'll take on the tough roles.
Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.
Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad.
The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: the one thinks everything right that is French, the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.
What's so wrong with vanity? It's different from narcissism, you know? It's not about admiring yourself-it's about taking pride in your appearance.
Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly.
Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.
Vanity, in a fairy tale, will make you evil. Vanity in the real world will drive you nuts. Vanity makes you say things like “I deserved a better life than this.
The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
