Vanity Quotes

840 quotes by 536 authors

Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant. — Karl Lagerfeld
The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny — Mark Twain
It's the ones who can't let go - of fear or anger, lust or greed, vanity or pride or power - who are most at… — Kate Elliott
Vanity is great motivation, to be fair. — Matthew McConaughey
I am vain. I think vanity is a good thing. It's done more good things for me than it has not. — Matthew McConaughey
I don't read a lot of magazines, but when I'm traveling, I'll pick up a copy of 'Vanity Fair' to read on the plane -… — Sam Trammell
My most treasured item is the brown leather bag that my mum bought me from a little Italian shop for my 21st. It's supposed to… — Felicity Jones
The vanity of being asked advice often makes us confirm the opinion of those that consult us. — Norm MacDonald
Imagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity. — Saint Augustine
One thing House needs Wilson for is vanity. He needs someone to laugh at his jokes. — Hugh Laurie
To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of… — Immanuel Kant
The late John Jacob Astor, a personage little given to poetic enthusiasm, had no hesitation in pronouncing my first grand point to be prudence; my… — Herman Melville
[Newton wrote to Halley ... that he would not give Hooke any credit] That, alas, is vanity. You find it in so many scientists. You… — Albert Einstein
Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this. — Blaise Pascal
It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best. — Thomas More
Through your rags I see your vanity. — Socrates
We speak little if not egged on by vanity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which… — Lord Chesterfield
'Blessed are the poor in spirit, for they shall see God' suggested to me a heavenly welfare program for the meek. Today that saying reveals… — Huston Smith
If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that...for that, I would give my SOUL for that. — Oscar Wilde

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