Vanity Quotes

I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.

The smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Selfdistrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his protracted existence.

Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.

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.

With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins.

How heroic to be able to suppress one's vanity to the extent of confessing that the game is too hard.

Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Those Women who boast the Affections of their Admirers, have a greater share of Vanity than Love.

I want to tell you a story. I have no other vanity.

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.

There is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity.

The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.

A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it.

Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

Vanity is a strong temptation to lying; it makes people magnify their merit, over flourish their family, and tell strange stories of their interest and acquaintance.

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.

I do think about aging. I have those moments of panic and vanity, but life keeps getting better, so you can't worry about it too much.

I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, at least the facelift wasn't vanity, but the hair was.

There is nothing which vanity does not desecrate.

I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity.

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

I have a lot of vanity.

I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.

Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.

I think actresses are imagined to be these subjects of great vanity. Life is change; physicality changes. It's transient, and that's a beautiful and a painful thing.

The Rose does not preen herself to catch my eye. She blooms because she blooms. A saint is a saint until he knows he is one.

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

Yes, be different, but not for the vanities of being different.

I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.

There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.

Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?

I have always found that Angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise.

The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.

And not a vanity is given in vain.

I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.

Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair.

I think if you try to look for something to show off as an actor, vanity can get the better of you.

Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.

Vanity, indeed, is the very antidote to conceit; for while the former makes us all nerve to the opinion of others, the latter is perfectly satisfied with its opinion of itself.

God gave us laughter, I think, as a balm to wash the wounds of our own blunders, as a splint to mend the bones we break in our rashness or vanity.

A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.

There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.