Vanity Quotes

840 quotes by 536 authors

When you start becoming really successful, the demons start to tempt you - the demons of vanity and self importance, drug abuse, the feelings of… — Ethan Hawke
There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed… — Helen Hayes
Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about… — Philip Seymour Hoffman
How vain, without the merit, is the name. — Homer
Stupidity talks, vanity acts. — Victor Hugo
Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty. — Victor Hugo
I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would… — Thomas Huxley
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. — Samuel Johnson
The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it. — Samuel Johnson
Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency. — Franz Kafka
I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot… — John Keats
Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. — Garrison Keillor
Vanity is the healthiest thing in life. — Karl Lagerfeld
God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more… — D. H. Lawrence
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that… — T.E. Lawrence
It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live… — Elle Macpherson
I think male actors get confused by their own vanity. — Shirley MacLaine
By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and… — James Madison
You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion. — Gustav Mahler
Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity. — Leighton Meester

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