Vanity Quotes · Page 18

But I feel vanity is a part of art and the non-vain are really non-artistic.

— Barry Webster

“Dear Superwoman, protect your tranquility and sanity. Remember that anything against authenticity is vanity.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

“Virtue would not go so far if vanity did not keep it company.”

— La Rocherfoucauld

When you have kids, you lose any shred of vanity you may have had.

— Kate Winslet

Guard against that vanity which courts a compliment, or is fed by it.

— Thomas Chalmers

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I think most people's view is that selfies are just vanity and stupid, but I think they're really great.

— Hannah Gadsby

“It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Everybody in Vanity Fair must have remarked how well those live who are comfortably and thoroughly in debt; how they deny themselves…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Music, when turned to a good account, is a blessing. When abused, it leads the unconsecrated to pride, vanity, and folly, and…

— Ellen G. White

Sometimes when you do fight scenes you think, "Oh, I'll be hit in the face," because people get carried away with their…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

It's the bane of both the news and sports businesses, both electronic and print - 'You heard it here first!' Who cares?…

— Al Michaels

Vanity in an old man is charming. It is a proof of an open, nature. Eighty winters have not frozen him up,…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you…

— Pierce Brosnan

A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves…

— Walter Scott

Why seek to embarrass [the artist] with vanities foreign to his quietness? Know you not that certain sciences require the whole man,…

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Perhaps in Vanity Fair there are no better satires than letters. Take a bundle of your dear friend’s of ten years back—your…

— William Thackeray

Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and…

— Frederick Douglass

There are some who wish to learn for no other reason than that they may be looked upon as learned, which is…

— Bernard of Clairvaux

Some philosophers would give a sex to revenge, and appropriate it almost exclusively to the female mind. But, like most other vices,…

— Charles Caleb Colton

When therefore the first spark of a desire after God arises in thy soul, cherish it with all thy care, give all…

— William Law

Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps…

— Charles Caleb Colton

We're in the age of the selfie. It's just encouraging vanity. It's not even representative of anything except how you want people…

— Lily Allen

There are few of us that are not rather ashamed of our sins and follies as we look out on the blessed…

— George Eliot

I have always liked clothes - throughout my life, my saving grace has been my own vanity.

— Anthea Turner

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Joel Edgerton

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

“Oh vanity! You are the lever with which Archimedes wanted to raise the earthly globe!”

— Mikhail Lermontov

The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.

— Eric Hoffer

As a person I'm perfectly vain, I'm just vainer as an actor about my ability. My acting vanity trumps my human vanity.

— Rufus Sewell

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

— Elizabeth Taylor

Philosophy is the only excuse God has for his cruelty and vanity.

— Kedar Joshi

... without health to enjoy love, and love to enjoy wealth, is not all vanity?

— Ellen Buckingham Mathews

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

— William Makepeace Thackeray

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

— Richard Avedon

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

— Nicolas Chamfort

Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?

— Martin Luther King, Jr

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

— Samuel Johnson