Vanity Quotes

guileless and without vanity,we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our own skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness.

Toni Morrison

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Beauty's sister is vanity, and its daughter lust.

Proverb

He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person

Mark Twain

When you are in a room with Kurtis, whether its one or a hundred he is the only person that matters.

Dee Remy

We must remember that possession of physical beauty can easily weaken the moral faculty.

Frank Tallis

Mine is better than ours.

Benjamin Franklin

Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.

Oscar Wilde

Why should he watch the hideous corruption of his soul?

Oscar Wilde

Vanity is a motive of immense potency.

Bertrand Russell

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it; for, however absurd it may be thought to boast an honour by an act which shows that it was conferred without merit, yet most men seem rather inclined to confess the want of virtue than of importance.

Samuel Johnson

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

George Eliot

I am less to you than your ivory Hermes or your silver Faun. You will like them always. How long will you like me? Till I have my first wrinkle, I suppose. I know, now, that when one loses one's good looks, whatever they may be, one loses everything. Your picture has taught me that. Lord Henry Wotton is perfectly right. Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.

Oscar Wilde

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.

Jane Austen

Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

Oscar Wilde

Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.

Miguel de Cervantes

Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom.

Proverb

That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments

Samuel Johnson

One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

William Shakespeare