Vanity Quotes

Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives by make-believe.

W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing

Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics.

Lord Chesterfield, Letter to his

Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.

Blaise Pascal, Penses

Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired : even I who write this, and you who read this.

Blaise Pascal

The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good

The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.

William Hutton

If you done it, it ain't bragging.

Walt Whitman

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

Blaise Pascal

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

Mark Twain

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Blaise Pascal

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

Edward George BulwerLytton

You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.

Ambrose Bierce

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt

Benjamin Franklin

As regards this vice, we read that the peacock is more guilty of it than any other animal. For it is always contemplating the beauty of its tail, which it spreads in the form of a wheel, and by its cries attracts to itself the gaze of the creatures that surround it. And this is the last vice to be conquered.

Leonardo DaVinci, note book

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Conceit is God's gift to little men.

Harry S Truman

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

Madame Swetchine

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

Henry David Thoreau