Vanity Quotes

840 quotes by 536 authors

How are you to meet the swarm of foolish attachments, triflings, and undesirable inclinations which beset you? By turning sharply away, and thoroughly renouncing such… — Saint Francis de Sales
Guileless and without vanity, we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released… — Jim Morrison
Never permit yourself to indulge in cheap flattery, which often times means to merely satisfy the individuals vanity and sometimes to ingratiate the flatter into… — Harold B. Lee
If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ugly as they may seem… — Eugene O'Neill
Oh God, God, please come to me, please illumine me, please act in me and through me. I don't know what's right and what's wrong.… — Frederick Lenz
We hide in relationships. We hide in material possessions. We hide in ambitions, secret desires, hates, frustrations, jealousy, self-ptiy, in our insecurity - and more… — Frederick Lenz
What's so wrong with vanity? It's different from narcissism, you know? It's not about admiring yourself-it's about taking pride in your appearance. — Tom Ford
Everybody in Vanity Fair must have remarked how well those live who are comfortably and thoroughly in debt; how they deny themselves nothing; how jolly… — William Makepeace Thackeray
To be happy one must be (a) well fed, unhounded by sordid cares, at ease in Zion, (b) full of a comfortable feeling of superiority… — H. L. Mencken
Vanity is a mortgage that must be deducted from the value of a man. — Otto von Bismarck
When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what seemed at the… — Malcolm Muggeridge
But, as I understand it, your God is a universal God; He is God on all suns and all planets. Surely, then, He must have… — John Wyndham
Vanity is both a great motivator and a great deceiver. — Andrew Davidson
Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many a morality. — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is a disgrace to let ignorance and vanity do more with us than prudence and principle. — Marcus Aurelius
One of the main goals of self-education is to eradicate that vanity in us without which we would never have been educated. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
A girl's coquetry is of the simplest, she thinks that all is said when the veil is laid aside; a woman's coquetry is endless, she… — Honore de Balzac
Only men of considerable vanity write books; consistently therewith, I worried lest the world were exchanging an irreplaceable author for a more easily purchased diplomat. — John Kenneth Galbraith
When we hear complaints of the wretchedness or vanity of human life, the proper answer to them would be that there is hardly any one… — William Hazlitt
Vanity does not refer to the opinion a man entertains of himself, but to that which he wishes others to entertain of him. — William Hazlitt

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