Vanity Quotes
+18Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
- Joseph Conrad
+1Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
- George Sand
+1Censorship is the height of vanity.
- Martha Graham
+1Self love seems so often unrequited.
- Anthony Powell
+1Vanity is a motive of immense potency.
- Bertrand Russell
+1The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.
- Thomas Wolfe
+1We speak little if not egged on by vanity.
- François Rochefoucauld
+1Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
- Benjamin Franklin
+1Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman.
- Jonathan Swift
+1Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
- François Rochefoucauld
+1Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
+1Vanity makes men ridiculous, pride odious and ambition terrible.
- Sir Richard
+1What makes the vanity of others insupportable is that it wounds our own.
- François Rochefoucauld
+1How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1If vanity does not overthrow all our virtues, at least she makes them totter.
- François Rochefoucauld
+1Virtue would not go to such lengths if vanity did not keep her company.
- François Rochefoucauld
+1No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
- Anthony Trollope
+1A man’s vanity tells him what is honor, a man’s conscience what is justice.
- Walter Savage Landor
+1We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don’t care for.
- Marie Ebner
+1Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
- Francois Rochefoucauld
+1A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a rougue to retire upon.
- Thomas Moore
+1Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
- Francois Rochefoucauld
+1There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.
- Mark Twain
+1I used to think getting old was about vanity-but actually it’s about losing people you love.
- Gopaleen Myles
+1Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
- Nicolas Chamfort
+1What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it’s easy to have glory without power.
- Bertrand Russell
+1The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.
- Henri Bergson
+1There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
- Edward G. Bulwer
+1Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
- George Eliot
+1Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been.
- William E. Woodward
+1Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.
- Garrison Keillor
+1The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.
- John Ruskin
+1Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
+1Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.
- Louis Kronenberger
+1How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?
- Lou Reed
