My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read. — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right? — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Vanity’s tentacles are much less sharp than those attached to the comforts of eating.” — Bernice Bloom Copy Share Image
“Roy: The immutable heart of what we are that bleeds through whatever we might become. All else is vanity.” — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
There is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity. — Nigella Lawson Copy Share Image
“Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care, throwing down books to readers… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I do believe that as you write more and age, the arrogance and most of the vanity goes. Or it is a… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
It's the ones who can't let go - of fear or anger, lust or greed, vanity or pride or power - who… — Kate Elliott Copy Share Image
How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
In luck or out the toil has left its mark: That old perplexity an empty purse, Or the day's vanity, the night's… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Without vanity a writer's work is tepid, and he must accept his vanity as part of his stock in trade and live… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
“The true business of the philosopher, though not flattering to his vanity, is merely to ascertain, arrange and condense the facts.” — John Leslie Copy Share Image
Life, by which I mean my life, is a great, or probably the greatest, design, from its very beginning to its end,… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
Love is the miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. I am not talking about vanity or arrogance . .… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“And, lastly (I may as well confess it, since my denial of it will be believed by nobody), perhaps I shall a… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
When dealing with people, let us remember that we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
“This harsh little man — this pitiless censor — gathers up all your poor scattered sins of vanity, your luckless chiffon of… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Many people ask why a writer commits suicide. But I think that people who ask don't know the vanity and the nothingness… — Kobo Abe Copy Share Image
The greatest human virtue bears no proportion to human vanity. We always think ourselves better than we are, and are generally desirous… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all. — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification. — Alice Thomas Ellis Copy Share Image
“What reason for vanity in being plunged into impenetrable darkness?” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Just because I am an opinionated and strong girl doesn't mean that I don't believe in vanity. — Bhumi Pednekar Copy Share Image
I think if I was not in love, I would probably let myself go faster. Love gives me the vanity to continue. — Salma Hayek Copy Share Image
Pride and vanity have built more hospitals than all the virtues together, — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
“Wounded vanity can make a woman more vindictive than a lioness robbed of her cubs.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
To what gods is sacrificed that rarest and sweetest thing upon earth, friendship? To vanity and to interest. — Guillaume-Chretien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes Copy Share Image
“Of all the weaknesses that beset a man, vanity is the most deadly. For through vanity can a wise man turn to… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
If you really think you are a good looking person, you don't have to extend efforts to gain everybody's attention. — Charmain Torralba Copy Share Image
Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
We think we are being interesting to others when we are being interesting to ourselves. — Jack Gardner Copy Share Image
“Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
