Vanity Quotes

840 quotes by 536 authors

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally… — Janet Malcolm
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. — Joseph Conrad
The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Above all you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and its vanities and its generosities, and say what your beauty… — Virginia Woolf
Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it makes us vain, in fact, of our modesty. — Louis Kronenberger
There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those… — Eric Hoffer
The Internet is the ultimate vanity-publishing medium, and therefore, the ultimate place for those of us who like to watch. The Internet can reach an… — Nathan Myhrvold
Okay, sense of humor: plus one. Being able to laugh at yourself: plus one. Being able to laugh at other people without being mean: plus… — Katie Aselton
The harming of animals for any reason is shameful, but torturing them for mere vanity is senseless. Slaughtering animals for their fur or harming them… — Laura Mennell
There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity, arrogance and pride. — Pope Francis
If people buy my books for vanity, I consider it a tax on idiocy. — Umberto Eco
I think if I was not in love, I would probably let myself go faster. Love gives me the vanity to continue. — Salma Hayek
Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything. — Taylor Swift
There will always be those little minds who, out of vanity or intellectual display, will attempt to destroy faith in the very foundations of life. — Ezra Taft Benson
Under all wrongdoing lies personal vanity or the feeling that we are endowed and privileged beyond our fellows. — James Stephens
Why is there such vanity about hair? I make a point to bathe. I worry about boogers in my nose, and I ask the makeup… — Anthony Edwards
Pride and vanity, the opposites of humility, can destroy our spiritual health as surely as a debilitating disease can destroy our physical health. — Joseph B. Wirthlin
In 1998, Vanity Fair asked me to write a big piece for them on the 50th anniversary of the New York City Ballet. My life,… — Robert Gottlieb
My pain threshold is quite high when it comes to vanity. — Trinny Woodall
When you eliminate vanity from an art form, and I would think that this would be any art form, what is left is an opportunity… — Lorraine Toussaint

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