Vanity Quotes

840 quotes by 536 authors

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not. — George Michael
The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere. — Maria Mitchell
The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing. — Michel de Montaigne
There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly. — Michel de Montaigne
A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon. — Thomas Moore
Doing press is like eating at McDonald's: while it's going on it's vaguely enjoyable - you're seduced by your own vanity and taking yourself rather… — Emily Mortimer
I've loved 'Vanity Fair' since I was 16 years old. You know, we're all colonial hangovers in India, steeped in English literature. It is one… — Mira Nair
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, at least the facelift wasn't vanity,… — Gary Numan
When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually… — Eugene O'Neill
Vanity is my favourite sin. — Al Pacino
Vanity is but the surface. — Blaise Pascal
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy. — Blaise Pascal
Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always… — Blaise Pascal
I was really excited to get to shave my head - it's something I'd wanted to do for a while and now I had a… — Natalie Portman
Now, I'm not saying I'm fashionable, but there are sociological interests that matter to me, things that are theoretical, political, intellectual and also concerned with… — Miuccia Prada
How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality? — Lou Reed
Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad. — Eric Ries
'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science, people have become… — Julia Roberts

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