Vanity Quotes

It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.

The devil…the prowde spirite…cannot endure to be mocked.

For as love is oftentimes won with beauty, so it is not kept, preserved, and continued, but by virtu...

guileless and without vanity,we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our o...

I tell you, my dear, Narcissus was no egoist… he was merely another of us who, in our unshatterable ...

Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled

There is a code of behavior, she knew, whose seventh article (it may be) says that on occasions of t...

He who despises himself, nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser. (Nietz

In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinen...

It was in the reign of George II. that the above-named personages lived and quarrelled ; good or bad...

I hope the artist who illustrates this work will take care to do justice to his portrait. Mr. Clive ...

The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts; b...

Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?

The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immed...

She also considered very seriously what she would look like in a little cottage in the middle of the...

Ere the horne'd owl hoot Once and twice and thrice there shall Go among the blind brown worms News o...

Vanity is my favourite sin.

In our more arrogant moments, the sin of pride—or superbia, in Augustine's Latin formulation—takes o...

[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of...

But a man's beauty represents inner, functional truths: his face shows what he can do. And what is t...

If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themsel...

In an earlier age, it might have been possible to believe that goodness would prevail over pride, bu...

However anxious one is to reach one’s goal, one can excuse delays on the route when these are caused...

Amongst democratic nations men easily attain a certain equality of conditions: they can never attain...

I was sorry for her; I was amazed, disgusted at her heartless vanity; I wondered why so much beauty ...

Alas, my being the James Bond of vampires isn't the whole issue. Vanity must wait.

The Rose does not preen herself to catch my eye. She blooms because she blooms. A saint is a saint u...

But if we reason it out simply and not try to be one bit fancy, then what sort of pride can you poss...

Very often inertia, selfishness, and vanity play the greatest role in our trust in others; inertia w...

It would be a great mistake to suppose that it is sufficient not to become personal yourself. For by...

If human nature were not base, but thoroughly honourable, we should in every debate have no other ai...

He wil sooner lose his best friend, then his least jest.

I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs ...

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

The charm of fame is so great, that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

He can be made to take a positive pleasure in the perception that the two sides of his life are inco...

Every self-respecting act of persuasion must find appeal to curiosity, then to vanity, and lastly to...

She [Mrs. Badger] was surrounded in the drawing-room by various objects, indicative of her painting ...

He [Old Mr. Turveydrop] was a fat old gentleman with a false complexion, false teeth, false whiskers...

But that, in shutting out the light of day, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and hea...

What a situation!' cried Miss Squeers; '...What is the reason that men fall in love with me, whether...

How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is th...

The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures b...

He could see her planting violets on his grave, a solitary figure in a grey cloak. What a ghastly tr...

You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing— your vanity is at stake. You discover a tric...

There’s just something unsettling about studying your reflection. It’s not a matter of being dissati...

Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It’s a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks ...

Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!

Vanity is a defensive quality. it contains an element of fear.

The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down!

Gertrude, behind her, again had just one... That one little feather she had as a starter. But now th...

It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assu...

She had in truth no abstract propensity to malice: she did not dislike Lily because the latter was b...

She seemed to be lovely still to herself, as if no amount of looking into mirrors could ruin her ill...

But I begin to fancy you don't like me. How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised ...

Weak and narrow are the powers implanted in the limbs of men; many the woes that fall on them and bl...

The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.

I didn't hit other people or hit purposefully, I just hit. Some object would be at fault. My anger w...

There will always be those little minds who, out of vanity or intellectual display, will attempt to ...

Probably more than any concrete vice or failing Amory despised his own personality - he loathed know...

If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t dist...

No-one loves another More than he loves whatever another within may haveThat is part of one's self

The youth who, like a woman, loves to adorn his person, has renounced all claim to wisdom and to glo...

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assista...

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another beca...

Without the errors which are active in every psychical pleasure and displeasrue a humanity would nev...

Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but ...

If I'd been born ugly, you'd never have heard of Pelé.

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.

He had the vanity to believe men did not like him – while men simply did not know him.

You are vain and wicked- as a genius should be.

Whenever an occasion arose in which she needed an opinion on something in the wider world, she borro...

...the pleasures of the world are chiefly folly, and the business of it mostly knavery, and both not...

...but doth not the person who expends vast sums in the furniture of his house or the ornaments of h...

The writer of this legend then recordsIts ghostly application in these words:The image is the Advers...

That mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true — not true, ...

Man is the vainest of allcreatures that have their being upon earth. As long as heavenvouchsafes him...

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

All these handsome guys are the same. When they're done combing their goddam hair, they beat it on y...

Lockhart'll sign anything if it stands still long enough.

Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to...

Let him have all the perfections in the world, I think it ought not to be set down as certain that a...

She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they sho...

Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situa...

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my f...

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be...

To avoid a comparative poverty, which her affection and her society would have deprived of all its h...

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.

Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. W...

I'm brilliant as well as skilled," he said modestly. "It's a great burden, all of that on top of my ...

I'm so pretty, it's hard for me to think of myself as intelligent.

Now I feel like James Bond. Suave and intelligent, breaking all the codes while looking fabulous.