Vanity Quotes · Page 19

It's pure vanity that keeps me eating healthy, but I adore fried food and sugar.

— Kim Rhodes

Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.

— David Frum

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

“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

either you are so underdeveloped that you can't see all that you can do, or you won't sacrifice your ease, your vanity,…

— Leo Tolstoy

People think they can tame the earth. How absurd! The vanity of human wishes is endless. It is more fun to dance…

— Frederick Lenz

Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The vanity of intelligence is that the intelligent man is often more committed to 'one-upping' his opponent than being truthful. When the…

— Criss Jami

It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't; It's only vanity when you…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Pride is a fault that great men blush not to own: it is the ennobled offspring of self-love; though, it must be…

— Joanna Baillie

The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: the one thinks everything right that is…

— William Hazlitt

Towards the end of your life you have something like a pain schedule to fill out—a long schedule like a federal document,…

— Saul Bellow

Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see ...each other…

— Anonymous

I think there is a major difference between actors and actresses. All of the men I've worked with have been really difficult,…

— Michelle Pfeiffer

In old age the consolation of hope is reserved for the tenderness of parents, who commence a new life in their children,…

— Edward Gibbon

I found during the course of my political career on the national scene there's a point where the vanity burns away and…

— Barack Obama

If we were faultless, we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate. If we…

— Francois Fenelon

The common people feel themselves oppressed by the grasping of some, and their vanity is flattered by others. Fired with evil passions,…

— Polybius

“He knows how to market himself well. Nowadays, that's all that seems to count. He's rebellious in a way that appeals to…

— Jess C. Scott

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

— Kate Winslet

“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

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

— William Makepeace Thackeray

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

— Ellen Buckingham Mathews

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

The most effectual way to be deceived is to believe oneself more cunning than one's neighbors.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The blessed lives of model-types, banking on the envy of the unwashed populace to earn their keep.”

— Mahvesh Murad

Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.

— Wilkie Collins