Vanity Quotes

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In my opinion, better far it be To destroy vanity within my life Than to destroy my life in vanity. — Juana InÃ©s de la Cruz
A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity. — Miguel de Cervantes
The vain being is the really solitary being. — Berthold Auerbach
Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth. — Elizabeth Smart
Without vanity a writer's work is tepid, and he must accept his vanity as part of his stock in trade and live with it as… — Moss Hart
We all know that a sympathetic and intelligent listener not only flatters our vanity, but also frequently enables us to crystallize our own ideas to… — Thomas F. Wilson
Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride. — Joanna Baillie
If you have to tell them who you are, you aren't anybody. — Gregory Peck
For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French forms on the other. The… — James Fenton
Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington. — David Frum
If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by vanity only that they appreciate… — Yousuf Karsh
They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and… — Shirley Knight
I don't mind women who want to act. That's fine. It's odd that men want to act, in that there's still a degree of vanity… — Shane Black
If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television. It doesn't do you any favours in terms of showing… — Clive Anderson
If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television. — Clive Anderson
I think it's good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and begin using your… — Peter Coyote
The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure. — Jackie DeShannon
Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon. — John Doerr
When women smoke, it is hard for them to quit because they are so worried about their weight; it's a vanity issue and a mindset. — Loni Anderson
I should have more vanity. — Amy Brenneman

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