Vanity Quotes
Most popular vanity quotes
A vain man can never be utterly ruthless. He wants to win applause, and therefore he accommodates himself to others.
Flattery is like counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.
One is vain by nature, modest by necessity.
Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
Isn't it fickle, mediocre vanity that makes us build walls, whether they are walls of riches or power, or violence and impunity?
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.
Look at a peacock. If you look from the front, it's very pretty. But take a few steps back and look at it from behind... He who falls into self-referential vanity is actually hiding deep misery.
Flattery is counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.
The punishment for vanity is flattery.
Fish for no compliments; they are generally caught in shallow water.
Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.
Vanity is the result of a delusion that someone is paying attention.
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that's laughable is vanity.
The greatest liar is the one who talks most of himself.
An author, like any other so-called artist, is a man in whom the normal vanity of all men is so vastly exaggerated that he finds it a sheer impossibility to hold it in.
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
Guard against that vanity which courts a compliment, or is fed by it.
There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.
The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
Marriage defeats and humbles the man since it soon or late robs him of his greatest bulwark, viz., vanity.
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
Those who prosper take on airs of vanity.
Naïveté in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
Nothing is so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth!
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
Vanity working on a weak head produces every sort of mischief.
There is nothing which vanity does not desecrate.
Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.
The passion of vanity has its own depths in the spirit, and is powerfully militant.
Hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds.
Is there any vanity greater than the vanity of those who believe themselves without it?
Vanity ruins more women than love.
We are so vain that we care even for the opinion of those we don't care for.
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
It is an indisputable fact that only vain people wage war against the vanity of others.
Vanity is a desire of personal glory, the wish to be appreciated, honored, and run after, not because of one's personal qualities, merits, and achievements, but because of one's individual existence.
If vanity does not overthrow all virtues, at least she makes them totter.
Virtue would not go nearly so far if vanity did not keep her company.
The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.
There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little.
To be a man's own fool is bad enough; but the vain man is everybody's.
Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.
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.
I have a horror of vanity; it is the quicksand of reason.
We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
Let us thank God for imparting to us, poor weak mortals, the inestimable blessing of vanity. How many half-witted votaries of the arts—poets, painters, actors, musicians—live upon this food, and scarcely any other!
There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.
No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.
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.
Pride is a wound, and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open the wound again and again.
The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick or a self-destroying or even murderous obsession. Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.
Pride is an established conviction of one's own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction in others, and it is generally accompanied by the secret hope of ultimately coming to the same conviction oneself.
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.
