Vanity Quotes

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 servility, or hatred and revolt.

Remember that life holds out many pleasing deceits to us by the vanity of glory; for that when we are beginning to live, then we are dying. There is, therefore, nothing more profitless than ambition.

Vanity prevents improvement

Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.

It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all.

The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny

True power and true politeness are above vanity.

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity.

Praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.

Now I feel like James Bond. Suave and intelligent, breaking all the codes while looking fabulous.

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.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

It is night, And it is vanity, and age Blackens the heart of Adam. Fear, The yellow chirper, beaks its cage.

Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity?

I think the industry is oblivious to the fact that most people listen to all kinds of stuff. I personally don't know of anyone who listens to only one genre of music. It's vanity because no one does.

By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.

Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity.

Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.

The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.

Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.

Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.

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 good excuse. It was nice to shed that level of vanity.

As long as somebody is guaranteed a certain number of sales you know you're gonna keep seeing these vanity projects. I mean they have a place, they serve a function they can bring people into comics.

I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.

You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by hearing the master pieces which have been produced at different periods.

Vanity should never tempt a player to engage in a combat at the risk of loss of health. It is bad enough to lose without the additional annoyance of paying doctors' bills.

A philosopher may deplore the eternal discords of the human race, but he will confess, that the desire of spoil is a more rational provocation than the vanity of conquest.

Vanity, thy name is vampire.

Censorship is the height of vanity.

It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.

I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.

Shine out fair sun, till I have bought a glass, That I may see my shadow as I pass.

I always felt like I was meant to have been born in another era, another time.

There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

Madness designates the equinox between the vanity of night's hallucinations and the non-being of light's judgments.

Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.

He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its pleasures for his trouble.

Aping urbanity, Oozing with vanity, Plump as a manatee, Faking humanity, Intellectual inanity, Journalistic calamity, Fox Noise insanity, You're a profanity, Hannity.

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that's laughable is vanity.

They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.

In a vain man, the smallest spark may kindle into the greatest flame, because the materials are always prepared for it.

Nature has cast but two men in the mould of statesmen,--myself and Mirabeau. After that she broke the mould.

It is a disgrace to let ignorance and vanity do more with us than prudence and principle.