Vanity Quotes

Power, like vanity, is insatiable. Nothing short of omnipotence could satisfy it completely.

[On vanity:] The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the face of the earth would have changed.

All politicians have vanity. Some wear it more gently than others.

Sure I'm cut but not for the sake of vanity.

If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.

Talking about your hair becomes a framework for talking about your vanity, your self-esteem, your relationships with your family, your mortality.

Music, when turned to a good account, is a blessing. When abused, it leads the unconsecrated to pride, vanity, and folly, and becomes one of Satan 's most attractive agencies to ensnare souls.

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind.

It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love.

Vanity is so superficial. It doesn't provide the grounds for progress.

I am sensible that my keenness of temper, and a vanity to be distinguished for the day, make me too often splash in life.... I amresolved to restrain myself and attend more to decorum.

Vanity, not love, has been my folly.

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should.

There's a way of filming where you can get rid of the vanity and of trying to make something beautiful.

Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon.

Envy is the reverse side of a coin called vanity - Nobody is ever envious of others who is not first proud of himself.

moral vanity is the snare of good people.

Egotism is the tongue of vanity.

I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries.

[Vanity] is an unrecognised form of stupidity, you have to forget the cosmic meaninglessness of all our acts to be able to be vain and that's a glaring form of stupidity.

I think it's good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and begin using your body as an asset or as an extension of your vanity, you've gone too far.

The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away.

My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read.

The first casualty of hitting rock bottom is vanity.

It is the vanity of women to spend hours in front of the mirror. It is the vanity of men not to bother.

If you want to succeed in the world it is necessary, when entering a salon, that your vanity should bow to that of others.

I see a city in the desert lies The vanity of an ancient king But the city lies in broken pieces While the wind howls and the vultures sing

There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.

The same way that I know that I'll never do a movie as good or as celebrated as 'Forrest Gump,' I know that I'll never do a movie as bad as 'Bonfire of the Vanities.'

Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.

Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been.

The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.

Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.

But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

What good is there in being blind, you ask? Well, maybe it's to see the beauty on the inside without being vainly distracted, or superficially blinded, by the ugly on the outside.

He had the vanity to believe men did not like him – while men simply did not know him.

You are vain and wicked- as a genius should be.

There's something ugly about a pretty boy who knows he's pretty and assumes everyone else know it too.

Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said more than three thousand years ago.

In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat.

My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug Vanity Fair. You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it.

They who prosper take on airs of vanity.

For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity cannot be satisfied without comparison with others.

Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.

You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere.

People who are very vain are usually equally susceptible; and they who feel one thing acutely, will so feel another.

Humility, never me; it is a characteristic I expect to find in other people.

Quomondo sedet sola civitas. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.