Vanity Quotes · Page 22

Europe is... a monument to the vanity of individuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure.

— Margaret Thatcher

What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power.

— Bertrand Russell

With what hope can we endeavor to persuade the ladies that the time spent at the toilet is lost in vanity.

— Samuel Johnson

In a vain man, the smallest spark may kindle into the greatest flame, because the materials are always prepared for it.

— David Hume

What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is a disgrace to let ignorance and vanity do more with us than prudence and principle.

— Marcus Aurelius

My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely.

— Matthew Macfadyen

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I think actresses are imagined to be these subjects of great vanity. Life is change; physicality changes. It's transient, and that's a…

— Uma Thurman

Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any…

— John Donne

We did a 'Vanity Fair' spread for 'The Hunger Games,' and we were on set, and I saw a little head pop…

— Alexander Ludwig

“I never want to be the type of person remembered for vanity or materialism; only by the content of my true character…

— Pauline Seaport

You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity…

— Anonymous

“The complexity of your earthly array is not a guarantee for a truimphant eternity. The fact is that you need a simple…

— Israelmore Ayivor

There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is curiosity. There are those who seek knowledge to be…

— Bernard of Clairvaux

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

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

I shall stick to our vow: never, never under any circumstances, to say anything unbecoming of the other...The trouble, of course, is…

— Nelson Mandela

“I was so tired of this ceaseless, day-to-day tug-of-war between my hormones and my head, my vanity and my virtue. I felt…

— Emily Tomko

Vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous. To be convinced of this we need only represent, on the…

— Baron de Montesquieu

The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.

— Blaise Pascal

“A woman who holds her head up too high, is trying to breathe from her own pollution.”

— Suzy Kassem

Human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution.

— Richard Dawkins

“Do not live for emptiness, do not waste your evaporating life pursuing the vanities of life.”

— Sunday Adelaja

If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that...for that, I would give my SOUL for that.

— Oscar Wilde

We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable.

— Samuel Johnson

The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“When pride and image matter more to you than demonstrating love, there is no love only vanity." ~ Jill Thrussell”

— Jill Thrussell

If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.

— Don DeLillo

Most times with vanity projects, publishers don't believe in the work; they just believe in the name.

— Gerard Way

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action.

— William Graham Sumner

“Praise is a very used, but always new, of surrendering to vanity”

— José de Alencar

“When you are in a room with Kurtis, whether its one or a hundred he is the only person that matters.”

— Dee Remy

Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.

— Fernando Pessoa