Vanity Quotes
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There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.
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Vanity often produces unreasonable alarm.
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You know, at 35 or at 38 or 40 you really start to see what your body could look like if you just don't do anything all winter long. So that's another motivating factor, our vanity.
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Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad.
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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
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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 console me for ignorance of physical science.
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A man who can laugh at himeself delivers all men from the burden of their vanity.
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Every sinew in my body came together in one perfect whole. But those who have ever experienced that feeling, and it doesn't happen very often, will tell you it's in a whole other place of experience from the usual ego or vanity that drives my game. So I'm not afraid to own it for what it was.
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Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat; it turns timidity into fierce courage, and dreadless defiance into tremulous submission; it turns thoughtlessness into foresight, and yet stills all anxiety into calm content; it makes selfishness become self – denial, and gives even to hard vanity the glance of admiring love.
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Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many a morality.
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Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.
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The vanity of being asked advice often makes us confirm the opinion of those that consult us.
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There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.
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Egotism is the tongue of vanity.
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Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?
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The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.
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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 it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.
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Vanity is normal in performers. Does it bother other people? All the time. But nine times out of 10, that says more about them than you.
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Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.
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To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.
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Vanity is so constantly solicitous of self, that even where its own claims are not interested, it indirectly seeks the aliment which it loves, by showing how little is deserved by others.
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Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.
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Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its own. It proclaims itself for what it is.
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It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled.
