Vanity Quotes

"The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity."
-Henri Bergson

"I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity."
-Diana Vreeland

"Vanity, like murder, will out."
-Hannah Cowley

"Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty."
-Louis Kronenberger

"I have always found that angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise."
-William Blake

"There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity."
-George Washington

"When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity."
-Dale Carnegie

"If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living."
-Leo Tolstoy

"In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin."
-Agnes Repplier

"But pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty."
-George Eliot

"The general cry is against ingratitude, but the complaint is misplaced, it should be against vanity; none but direct villains are capable of willful ingratitude; but almost everybody is capable of thinking he hath done more that another deserves, while the other thinks he hath received less than he deserves."
-Alexander Pope

"Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity."
-Abraham Cowley

"Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity."
-Henry Bromel

"There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own follies than to boast that they rose in the world through their own industry and talents. It is the same shabby-genteel sentiment, the same vanity of birth which makes men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels rather than elevated apes."
-W. Winwood Reade

"Religion is the highest vanity."
-Hebbel

"The man of life upright,/ Whose guiltless heart is free/ From all dishonest deeds/ Or thought of vanity."
-Thomas Campion

"Vanity is my favourite sin."
-Al Pacino

"No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library."
-Samuel Johnson

"The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity."
-Thomas Carlyle

"Judging by the vanity plates in California - 'Saving More,' 'Low Mileage' - hybrid is a badge of honor that people want to wear. Hydrogen is the path to the future. But, on the way to hydrogen, hybrid is an alternative."
-John Mendel

"VALOR, n. A soldierly compound of vanity, duty and the gambler's hope. 'Why have you halted?' roared the commander of a division and Chickamauga, who had ordered a charge; 'move forward, sir, at once.' 'General,' said the commander of the delinquent brigade, 'I am persuaded that any further display of valor by my troops will bring them into collision with the enemy.'"
-Ambrose Bierce

"I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind."
-Richard Greenberg

"The study of the history of music and the hearing of masterworks of different epochs will quickly cure you of vanity and self-adoration."
-Robert A. Schumann

"This was definitely not a vanity project. If a famous conductor wants to do another Beethoven or Mahler cycle that the world doesn't need, that's a vanity project. But a young composer who writes good music, that's not a vanity project."
-Klaus Heymann

"All is vanity, and discovering it - the greatest vanity."
-John Oliver Hobbes

"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible."
-T. E. Lawrence

"We are trying to make things as pleasant as we can. We got a roof on so it doesn't leak anymore. We are ripping up and replacing damaged floor in the utility room. We will do a little kitchen work putting in a new kitchen counter and sink. We will put a new vanity in the bath, and I think that will run our budget out. We will come back and do the outside work during the week."
-Wayne Burnette

"When a young woman grows oldher vanity turns to shame."
-Gaelic Proverb