Vanity Quotes

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. (Oscar Wilde)
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that's laughable is vanity. View quote
Henri Bergson
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich. View quote
Nicolas Chamfort
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. View quote
George Eliot
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
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 dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did. View quote
T. E. Lawrence
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The highest form of vanity is love of fame. View quote
George Santayana
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect. (Leon Trotsky)
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. View quote
Jane Austen
The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
The feminine vanity case is the grave of masculine illusions. View quote
Helen Rowland
The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders. View quote
Eric Hoffer
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. View quote
Mark Twain
On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right? There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed "Wisdom." And then I know exactly what is going to follow: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity." View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity. View quote
Diana Vreeland
The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion. View quote
William Hazlitt
All is vanity, nothing is fair. (William Makepeace Thackeray)
No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity. View quote
Edith Wharton
The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. View quote
Thomas Wolfe
Women are much more like each other than men they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love these are their universal characteristics. View quote
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead. View quote
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax