Vanity Quotes · Page 12

“The hearing of masterworks of different epochs will speediest of all cure you of vanity and self-adoration.”

— Schumann Robert

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

— Samuel Johnson

Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.

— Eric Hoffer

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

— Blaise Pascal

The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny

— Mark Twain

What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive it!

— Edwin Balmer

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

— George Santayana

One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm frightened of my innate vanity. I mean: the suits lined with scarves? Even I know the warning signs. I could quite…

— A. A. Gill

Vanity's really overrated. When I was 20, teenage girls had my picture on the wall... I don't need to be pretty anymore.…

— Michael J. Fox

A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist…

— Samuel Johnson

I treat clothing or a piece of jewelry like it was a piece of art, even though people who collect clothes get…

— Daphne Guinness

Only men of considerable vanity write books; consistently therewith, I worried lest the world were exchanging an irreplaceable author for a more…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost…

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

“It is not so much vanity as making sure you are still you at the end of the day. You are most…

— Lisa Goldin

I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose…

— Francis Bacon

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

— Erik Pevernagie

“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

“Then there is the cosmologist, who views himself as nothing but a manipulation of atoms; his mind configured out of randomness into…

— Dan Garfat-Pratt

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

I have often thought how strange it is that men can at once and the same moment cheerfully consign our sex to…

— Frances Power Cobbe

we look up and we hope the stars look down, we pray that there may be stars for us to follow, stars…

— Salman Rushdie

Cast out pride and vanity; have no thought of trying to rule over others or of outdoing them.

— Wallace D. Wattles

“He may have to bring us to the sad realization that everything we have done apart from him is vanity,”

— Russell M. Stendal

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

— Michel de Montaigne

While you are still beautiful and life still woos, it is such a fine gesture of disdainful pride to jilt it.

— Eugene O'Neill

The desire to be thought clever often prevents a man from becoming so.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

After I have said what is required by my vanity and my morality, I may find a moment for Truth.

— Mason Cooley

For me, exercise isn't really about being healthy, it's more about vanity.

— Ashley Walters

I would have already been dead because I'm too guilty of vanity.. a deadly sin

— Rochelle Morrison

If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television.

— Clive Anderson

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

God got the power, man has got his vanity. Man gotta choose before God can set him free.

— Bob Dylan

The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.

— Nicolas Chamfort

It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.

— Oscar Wilde

Vanity is a strange passion; rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices.

— Josh Billings

Where would the power of women be, were it not for the vanity of men?

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

... but the greatest wisdom is blinded by the glare of vanity.

— Paulo Coelho