Vanity Quotes
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I was sorry for her; I was amazed, disgusted at her heartless vanity; I wondered why so much beauty should be given to those who made so bad a use of it, and denied to some who would make it a benefit to both themselves and others. But, God knows best, I concluded. There are, I suppose, some men as vain, as selfish, and as heartless as she is, and, perhaps, such women may be useful to punish them.
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The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.
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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.
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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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There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.
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Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.
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Vanity is not having facelifts if you're ugly. Those people who say: 'Oh, I'd never dream of having anything done!' That's rude. It's rude, to other people, to not try and look your best; to not try and stir things up, to not reinvent... or just invent... it's one's duty to not get stuffy.
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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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A life being enacted onstage is a thing of utter fascination for me. And acting, it may begin out of vanity, but you hope that it's taken over by something else. I hope I've climbed over the vanity hurdle.
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If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanity -- before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly.
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Vanity is so anchored in the heart of man that a soldier, a soldier's servant, a cook, a porter brags and wishes to have his admirers. Even philosophers wish for them. Those who write against vanity want to have the glory of having written well; and those who read it desire the glory of having read it. I who write this have perhaps this desire, and perhaps those who will read it.
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Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?
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The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others; what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain we should save our brethren, if we would suffer our own weakness to be the measure of theirs.
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Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.
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You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.
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For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity cannot be satisfied without comparison with others.
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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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A man who can laugh at himeself delivers all men from the burden of their vanity.
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A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity.
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Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.
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There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.
