Vanity Quotes
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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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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 but the surface.
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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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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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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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The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.
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There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.
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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 is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.
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You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.
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A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity.
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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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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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The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
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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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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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A man who can laugh at himeself delivers all men from the burden of their vanity.
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Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.
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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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The ant's a centaur in his dragon world. Pull down thy vanity, it is not man Made courage, or made order, or made grace, Pull down thy vanity, I say pull down. Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry, Pull down thy vanity, Paquin pull down! The green casque has outdone your elegance.
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Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?
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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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Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also.
