Vanity Quotes · Page 13

In a vain man, the smallest spark may kindle into the greatest flame, because the materials are always prepared for it.

— David Hume

“The world is not something to be understood. It is vanity, illusion to even try.”

— Guy Gavriel Kay

Vain people can't focus beyond the reflection of themselves in a vanity.

— Michael Travis

“When you only have one vanity, I think you’re allowed to indulge it.)”

— Erin Kelly

“I've loved many women...I'm not going to lie to you, but it never works...vanity always gets in the way.”

— Cassandra Giovanni

All is vanity and everybody's vain. Women are terribly vain. So are men - more so, if possible.

— Jerome K. Jerome

A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.

— Thomas Moore

The vanity of shining in conversation is usually subversive of its own desires.

— Lydia Sigourney

Now I feel and I say all the time that vanity is, like, long gone. I'm really free of worrying about what…

— Michael J. Fox

Because arrogance is born in personal vanity, arrogant people are driven without mercy. They can never get enough power to fill the…

— Lewis B. Smedes

“once ruffle-skirted vanity table where I primped at thirteen, opening drawers to a private chaos of eyeshadows lavender teal sky-blue, swarms of…

— Barbara Blatner

There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense…

— Samuel Johnson

“Your dissatisfaction with yourself speaks of a self-absorption, a vanity, which always gets in the way of your truly coming to rejoice…

— Matias Dalsgaard

Instead of idleness, vanity, or an intellect formed by the spoon-feeding of others, my girls have acquired energy, industry, and independence.

— Geraldine Brooks

“Where was my head just then? I've already said I'm plain yet all of a sudden I think I'm The Shit? I'm…

— Penelope Fletcher

As long as somebody is guaranteed a certain number of sales you know you're gonna keep seeing these vanity projects. I mean…

— Gerard Way

The burning conviction that we have a holy duty towards others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a…

— Eric Hoffer

Nothing makes a man more aware of his capabilities and of his limitations than those moments when he must push aside all…

— Robert S. Johnson

He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours,…

— Agnes Repplier

An Actor is an interpreter of other men's words, often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare…

— Alec Guinness

“We've already had Malthus , the friend of humanity. But the friend of humanity with shaky moral principles is the devourer of…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Vanity is not having facelifts if you're ugly. Those people who say: 'Oh, I'd never dream of having anything done!' That's rude.…

— Nicholas Haslam

There’s just something unsettling about studying your reflection. It’s not a matter of being dissatisfied with your face or of being embarrassed…

— Dean Koontz

After the war in Afghanistan, Anna [Wintour, editor of Vogue], deciding to save the world one hair-roller at a time, thought the…

— Myrna Blyth

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

— Lord Mountbatten

“Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.”

— Amit Kalantri

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

— Evelyn Waugh

“It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.”

— David Hume

They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.

— Robert Southey

Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down!”

— Dorothy Day

“No point in wasting time with false vanity when you possess the real thing.”

— Alan Bradley

“I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything.”

— Gustave Flaubert

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

— Gustave Flaubert

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

— Criss Jami

My vanity is not remotely physical, it is cerebral. I suppose feeling self-conscious might be a form of vanity, though.

— Richard Griffiths

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

— Ishmael Butler

“I had only four hairs worth shaving, but I managed to inflict five cuts attempting to remove them.”

— Troy Soos

I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.

— Muhammad Ali

Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.

— Alfred de Musset