Vanity Quotes

A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.

Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.

Scarcely have I ever heard or read the introductory phrase, "I may say without vanity," but some striking and characteristic instance of vanity has immediately followed.

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

Oh, the cares of men! how much emptiness there is in human concerns!

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

Until the Donkey tried to clear The Fence, he thought himself a Deer.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

And not a vanity is given in vain.

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

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

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

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

Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them.

We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.

We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable.

No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity.

If you are vain it is vain to sign your pictures and vain not to sign them. If you are not vain it is not vain to sign them and not vain not to sign them.

What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.

I doubt if there ever was a man who was not gratified by being told that he was liked by the women.

We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries more weight than our self-interest.

There's nothing like getting yourself into character and seeing a different person. It really wears on your vanity.

Every present occasion will catch the senses of the vain man; and with that bridle and saddle you may ride him.

I'll destroy you. I am the master of disaster.

Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of mental make in which one of us differs from another.

What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.

Without vanity a writer's work is tepid, and he must accept his vanity as part of his stock in trade and live with it as one of the hazards of his profession.

Because handsomeness is always accompanied by vanity.And I suppose ugliness is accompanied by a wealth of virtues?

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

Thy pride is but the prologue of thy shame; where vain-glory commands, there folly counsels; where pride rides, there shame lackeys.

They sin who tell us Love can die: With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity, In Heaven Ambition cannot dwell, Nor Avarice in the vaults of Hell.

Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.

That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own.

What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.

You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.

It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.

Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.

Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.