Vanity Quotes · Page 23

Cultures render their icons in their own image. Which comes down to vanity, in some sense.

— Joel Edgerton

What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.

— Stendhal

Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.

— William Ellery Channing

There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.

— William Saroyan

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

— Alice Thomas Ellis

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

— Franz Kafka

“pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”

— Jane Austen

They sin who tell us Love can die: With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity, In Heaven Ambition…

— Robert Southey

“Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling…

— Shannon L. Alder

The harming of animals for any reason is shameful, but torturing them for mere vanity is senseless. Slaughtering animals for their fur…

— Laura Mennell

“Like many other simple-hearted souls, it was her pet vanity to believe she was endowed with a talent for dark and mysterious…

— Anonymous

Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you…

— Blaise Pascal

Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display, and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and…

— Antonio Porchia

I don't mind women who want to act. That's fine. It's odd that men want to act, in that there's still a…

— Shane Black

“The Revolution has shown us that the advantages and opinion of society, which I thought everything, are really nothing, and always have…

— James Tipton

Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.' I am not aware of it. And to me it is one…

— George Eliot

Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which…

— Jonathan Swift

We all of us must come to terms with what and who we are, and recognize that this wisdom is not going…

— Sándor Márai

We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And…

— William James

We have looked first at man with his vanities and greed and his problems of a day or a year; and then…

— Rachel Carson

I imagine it great vanity in me to suppose that the Supremely Perfect does in the least regard such an inconsiderable nothing…

— Benjamin Franklin

“He who despises himself, nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser. (Nietzsche.) A vain person is always vain about something. He overestimates the…

— W.H. Auden

“When the shine is wearing off and the underlying cracks of a garlanded lifestyle become painfully apparent, reality may inexorably take its…

— Erik Pevernagie

“What reason for vanity in being plunged into impenetrable darkness?”

— Blaise Pascal

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

— George Eliot

“Roy: The immutable heart of what we are that bleeds through whatever we might become. All else is vanity.”

— Tony Kushner

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

— Nigella Lawson

Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.

— Margaret Atwood

“Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.”

— Anonymous

Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad.

— Salvador Dali

We think we are being interesting to others when we are being interesting to ourselves.

— Jack Gardner

“No-one loves another More than he loves whatever another within may have That is part of one's self”

— Fernando Pessoa

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.

— Taylor Swift

“Those who seek enjoyment in life are the ones that think that the world is a playground.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.

— Oscar Wilde

Just because I am an opinionated and strong girl doesn't mean that I don't believe in vanity.

— Bhumi Pednekar

I think if I was not in love, I would probably let myself go faster. Love gives me the vanity to continue.

— Salma Hayek

“Wounded vanity can make a woman more vindictive than a lioness robbed of her cubs.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

Pride and vanity have built more hospitals than all the virtues together,

— Bernard de Mandeville