Vanity Quotes
A man's vanity is more fragile that you might think. It's easy for us to mistake shyness for coldness, and silence for indifference.
Cast out pride and vanity; have no thought of trying to rule over others or of outdoing them.
It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where 't is kept is lighter than vanity.
HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather have a few more T-cells and a little less character.
Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity.
There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.
The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.
Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
Never permit yourself to indulge in cheap flattery, which often times means to merely satisfy the individuals vanity and sometimes to ingratiate the flatter into the good graces of the flattered.
Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.
No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.
Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed.
The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart.
It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.
Vanity is normal in performers. Does it bother other people? All the time. But nine times out of 10, that says more about them than you.
Like bees around honey. Why are bees so attracted to honey, since they make it? It can only be vanity.
Take away a painter's vanity, said a famous landscape painter, and he will never touch a pencil again.
O wearisome condition of humanity! Born under one law, to another bound; Vainly begot and yet forbidden vanity; Created sick, commanded to be sound.
Without that poise and balance and gentle humor and caring sense, nothing happens at all. It's just egotism and vanity and jealousy and possessiveness.
False glory is the rock of vanity; it seduces men to affect esteem by things which they indeed possess, but which are frivolous, and which for a man to value himself on would be a scandalous error.
Pride is a wound and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open that wound again and again. Among men it seldom heals and often grows septic.
Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.
How heroic to be able to suppress one's vanity to the extent of confessing that the game is too hard.
With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins.
I enjoy vanity . But I can't stick to any of that lifestyle for too long because, when its true colors come out, it's empty and cold and soulless.
Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.