Vanity Quotes · Page 21

Men do not take to vanity, because they are taught at an early age that it is wrong to be vain.

— Michelle Pfeiffer

The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.

— Agnes Repplier

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

— Denis Diderot

So when I look in the mirror I'm driven by both vanity and fear.

— Andy Whitfield

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

— Thomas Carlyle

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

— David Hewson

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

— Storm Jameson

Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.

— Jane Austen

I cannot agree that mountain climbing is merely one manifestation of man's spiritual aspirations. I think instead it is a hysterical paroxysm…

— Rex Stout

My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the…

— Adelbert von Chamisso

Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly innocent.”

— Albert Camus

Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what…

— Dennis Lehane

“Words do less than 10 things, but actions do more than 10 thousand things. Leaders don’t talk in vain; they follow with actions.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

If I ever tried to take credit for what God deserves the credit, He would be displeased with me, and I'm more…

— Louis Farrakhan

Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded…

— Thomas Paine

Consider him in his highest incarnation: the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls…

— H. L. Mencken

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by vanity only…

— Yousuf Karsh

I'd known the people at Rolling Stone for a while. I'd gone to them with a piece I'd done on Beirut for…

— P. J. O'Rourke

A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught…

— Anonymous

“Admiring and a little overwhelmed by the simple opulence of the limousine’s interior, she shook snowflakes from her scarf and tresses, hoping…

— Roberta Pearce

Is the artist impelled by spiritual forces, by the divine afflatus, by conscious or unconscious emulation of others? Do angles whisper in…

— Walter J. Phillips

“And yet, here I am. Perceiving everything that is wonderful to be proportionately difficult; everything that is possible an elaborate battle to…

— Sara Baume

“I'm not good, of course; I wouldn't give a fig to be good. So it's not vanity. It's on a far grander…

— Harriet Prescott Spofford

Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.

— Abraham Verghese

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

— Samuel Butler

It is night, And it is vanity, and age Blackens the heart of Adam. Fear, The yellow chirper, beaks its cage.

— Robert Lowell

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

— Edmund Burke

Vanity is a silly thing to be obsessed with because... it sounds cliché but it leads you to emptiness; it goes away.

— Kristen Stewart

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

— Jane Austen

Imperfections would not be half so much taken notice of, if vanity did not make proclamation of them.

— Roger L'Estrange

I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not.

— Lionel Shriver

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

— Albert Einstein

“It is well known that women outlive men; could it merely be superior vanity that keeps them going?”

— Truman Capote

He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.

— Mark Twain

Invest in vanity. Buy stocks in high-profile companies whose products are designed to make you feel good and look good.

— Nancy Dunnan

There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Aldous Huxley

We shouldn't be too hard on vanity. It can be a mark of respect for the world.

— Howard Jacobson