“Killing animals to make a fashion statement = a sickening + cold-blooded vanity.” — Jess C. Scott Copy Share Image
Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very, very blurred. — Jason Patric Copy Share Image
The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Beg pardon?" I detected large deposits of vanity. Vanity is the softest of bedrocks to sink shafts into.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Power, like vanity, is insatiable. Nothing short of omnipotence could satisfy it completely. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Vanity is a mortgage that must be deducted from the value of a man. — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
One who has given up any hope of winning a fight or has clearly lost it wants his style in fighting to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Hairspray and blusher, eyelash curlers, eye-shadow palettes the size of tea-trays. Even before they left school it was as if they were… — Alison Fell Copy Share Image
“Agatha: "If you say anything smug or stuck-up or shallow, I'll have Reaper follow you home." Sophie: "But then I can't talk!” — Soman Chainani Copy Share Image
Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable -… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fashion is everywhere and about everything. It is folly, vanity and the fun of it all. It is disguise, innuendo, and cunning.… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
Vanity is a strong temptation to lying; it makes people magnify their merit, over flourish their family, and tell strange stories of… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
There was about all the Romans a heroic tone peculiar to ancient life. Their virtues were great and noble, and these virtues… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Without the errors which are active in every psychical pleasure and displeasrue a humanity would never have come into existence--whose fundamental feeling… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Guileless and without vanity, we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our skins, enjoyed the news that… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Anxieties about ourselves endure. If our proper study is indeed the study of humankind, then it has seemed-and still seems-to many that… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Vanity, or to call it by a gentler name, the desire of admiration and applause, is, perhaps, the most universal principle of… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of worshipping false gods, of… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The woman is the man's glory, and she naturally delights in the praises which are assurances that she is fulfilling her function;… — Coventry Patmore Copy Share Image
“Vanity occurs when we think we are invincible. Death occurs to tell us we are not.” — Vinita Kinra Copy Share Image
“Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company. Francois de La Rochefoucauld” — Gabriela Popa Copy Share Image
“still dripped down my naked torso as I brushed my teeth in the vanity mirror. My dark hair looked” — Kirsty Dallas Copy Share Image
Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty. — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable. — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
What makes the vanity of others insupportable is that it wounds our own — François De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Always remember that vanity leads to a disgusting sense of self-love, do not love yourself, love the world instead. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To allow your time evaporate each day without a product to show for it is to allow your life evaporate into vanity.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
A fundamental condition of Being is slavery. Man is the slave of God, and God that of His vanity. — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
I have plenty of vanity in my life. I want to look pretty in the world. But it can be this bottomless… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
How heroic to be able to suppress one's vanity to the extent of confessing that the game is too hard. — Alice James Copy Share Image
Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
The nicest gifts are those left, nameless and quiet, unburdened with love, or vanity, or the desire for attention. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
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