Vanity Quotes

840 quotes by 536 authors

Any woman may act the part of a coquette successfully who has the reputation without the scruples of modesty. If a woman passes the bounds… — William Hazlitt
Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies… — Bill Vaughan
Quomondo sedet sola civitas. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity. — Evelyn Waugh
That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising to be told… — Blaise Pascal
Vanity's really overrated. When I was 20, teenage girls had my picture on the wall... I don't need to be pretty anymore. I just am… — Michael J. Fox
Now I feel and I say all the time that vanity is, like, long gone. I'm really free of worrying about what I look like,… — Michael J. Fox
An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from… — Pope Francis
Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church. — Pope Francis
Mine is better than ours. — Benjamin Franklin
Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it. — Lady Gaga
I do think about aging. I have those moments of panic and vanity, but life keeps getting better, so you can't worry about it too… — Jennifer Garner
If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men? — Vincent Van Gogh
Censorship is the height of vanity. — Martha Graham
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be… — Charles Caleb Colton
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. — Charles Caleb Colton
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. — George Eliot
I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner… — Gustave Flaubert
For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the… — E. M. Forster
I'm not sure if guys are supposed to read Vanity Fair. I feel very metrosexual with it but am not sure it's in my comfort… — Mohsin Hamid
The same way that I know that I'll never do a movie as good or as celebrated as 'Forrest Gump,' I know that I'll never… — Tom Hanks

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