Vanity Quotes · Page 23

Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?

— Seneca the Younger

Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.

— Alfred de Musset

I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.

— Muhammad Ali

Yes, be different, but not for the vanities of being different.

— Criss Jami

My vanity is not remotely physical, it is cerebral. I suppose feeling self-conscious might be a form of vanity, though.

— Richard Griffiths

Vanity is so superficial. It doesn't provide the grounds for progress.

— Ishmael Butler

“I had only four hairs worth shaving, but I managed to inflict five cuts attempting to remove them.”

— Troy Soos

“Vanity in a newspaper man is like perfume on a whore: they use it to fend off a dark whiff of themselves.”

— Julian Assange

“Women that can work a camera with ease often work men just as effortlessly for both require the same commitment to vanity…

— Tiffany Madison

What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,...…

— Plato

Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to…

— Pliny the Elder

“The way you think about yourself determines your reality. You are not being hurt by the way people think about you. Many…

— Shannon L. Alder

We are so presumptuous that we wish to be known to all the world, even to those who come after us; and…

— Blaise Pascal

Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there…

— Albert Camus

The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing; every one must be an…

— Martin Luther

There are some who become spies for money, or out of vanity and megalomania, or out of ambition, or out of a…

— Max Lerner

I saw myself. . . in the time I watched, I saw strength and frailty, pride and vanity, courage and fear. Of…

— Lloyd Alexander

It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of…

— David Hume

“...It often seemed to her that she thought too much about herself, you could have made her blush any day of the…

— Henry James

I manage because I have to. Because I've no other way out. Because I've overcome the vanity and pride of being different,…

— Andrzej Sapkowski

“Being naturally of a serious turn, my attention was directed to the solid advantages derivable from a residence here, rather than to…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Everything - our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles - is meant to help us forget ourselves and to protect us from vanity,…

— Veronica Roth

“I am less to you than your ivory Hermes or your silver Faun. You will like them always. How long will you…

— Oscar Wilde

Mundus vult decipi'—the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.

— George Michael

Love is that enviable state that knows no envy or vanity, only empathy and a longing to be greater than oneself…

— Anonymous

Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I feel like all comedy does require a lack of vanity, but multi-cam, especially.

— Anna Faris

Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“If only we studied the stars as much as we study our own reflections.”

— Kamand Kojouri

In my opinion, better far it be To destroy vanity within my life Than to destroy my life in vanity.

— Juana Inés de la Cruz

Under all wrongdoing lies personal vanity or the feeling that we are endowed and privileged beyond our fellows.

— James Stephens

I have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

For let us women be never so ill-favored, I imagine that we are always delighted to hear ourselves called handsome.

— Miguel de Cervantes

It is a rule of creative ability that it does nothing of any value, while it is possessed by this afflatus of…

— Christina Stead

“If You Think that Everyone Swindles You, You are a Selfish Person”

— Vineet Raj Kapoor

Love based upon money and vanity forms the most stubborn of passions.

— Honore de Balzac

My friends think I'm vain because I think every Taylor Swift song is about me

— Oscar Romero