Vanity Quotes · Page 25

“The whole business is built on ego,vanity,self-satisfaction , and its total crap to pretend its not”

— George Michael

Virtue would not go to such lengths if vanity did not keep her company

— François De La Rochefoucauld

It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love.

— Horace Walpole

All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics.

— Mark Twain

You have no idea what portrait painters suffer from the vanity of their sitters.

— Kenneth Clark

People who are very vain are usually equally susceptible; and they who feel one thing acutely, will so feel another.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“If my beauty is my greatest weapon, vanity is the shield that protects me.”

— Julie C. Dao

“Mr. Darcy, I could honestly forgive his vanity had he not wounded mine.”

— Jane Austen

I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I…

— Jackie Collins

I consider it an indubitable mark of mean-spiritedness and pitiful vanity to court applause from the pen or tongue of man.

— George Washington

Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love…

— Mark Twain

“But my kind reader will please to remember that this history has “Vanity Fair” for a title, and that Vanity Fair is…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

I would be lying if I said it wasn't cool to see myself on the cover of 'Vanity Fair,' right? It's, like,…

— Megyn Kelly

“The more words, the more vanity, and what is man the better? For who knows what is good for man while he…

— Ecclesiastes 6:11-12

I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over…

— Wallace Shawn

Some have lavish garments, carry sharp swords, and feast on food and drink. They possess more than they can spend. This is…

— Laozi

Not even man that will re-find himself will be able to remove the vanity from this diabolic world, but he can change…

— Sorin Cerin

O vanity, how little is thy force acknowledged or thy operations discerned! How wantonly dost thou deceive mankind under different disguises! Sometimes…

— Henry Fielding

“She trailed after him, admiring the line of his back. He began climbing the stairs, and she sighed with pleasure. Every bit…

— Meljean Brook

When you know too much information and you acquire it too easily, you tend to either use it in disagreeable ways, out…

— Norman Mailer

'Vanity Fair' did this grid thing a couple years ago, connecting people who've worked together, and I had the most branches on…

— Bill Hader

“I detest that fatuity of mind which believes that what is explained is also excused; I hate that vanity which finds it…

— Benjamin Constant

The vanity extended most of all to his library, arguably the real love of Cicero's life. It is difficult to name anything…

— Stacy Schiff

Let him who cannot be alone beware of community... Let him who is not in community beware of being alone... Each by…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

— Mark Twain

Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.

— Alexander Pope

The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope.

— John Lancaster Spalding

A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.

— Jean de la Bruyere

I don't need glasses, but I've just reached the age where curiosity is greater than vanity.

— Red Skelton

“An arrogant man forever thinks he can do much more than he can.”

— Amit Kalantri

I think it is vanity to want to put into a story anything but the story itself.

— Julio Cortazar

Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.

— Garrison Keillor

“What men classify as living is often but the discontentment of making oneself itch just to enjoy the scratch.”

— Criss Jami

Humility counts for much, but it may be that vanity does not dispossess that admirable quality.

— Walter J. Phillips

What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Conceit is lovable and unconcealed ; vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.

— Myrtle Reed

With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Every man's vanity ought to be his greatest shame; and every man's folly ought to be his greatest secret.

— Francis Quarles

The vanity of being asked advice often makes us confirm the opinion of those that consult us.

— Norm MacDonald