Vanity Quotes - page 2

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt. (Benjamin Franklin)
Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief. View quote
Jane Austen
Things said or done long years ago Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or do, Weigh me down, and not a day But something is recalled, My conscience or my vanity appalled. View quote
William Butler Yeats
He had only one vanity he thought he could give advice better than any other person. View quote
Mark Twain
I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness. View quote
David Remnick
Children live in the same world we do. To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just naive it's a vanity. View quote
Lionel Shriver
Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere. View quote
Van Wyck Brooks
Vanity and narcissism - the compulsive need to be admired and praised - undermine one's courage, for one then fights on someone else's conviction rather than one's own. View quote
Rollo May
It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where 't is kept is lighter than vanity. View quote
John Bunyan
In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull if you talk, you are thought impertinent or arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates. View quote
William Hazlitt
Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty. (George Eliot)
In a solitude of the sea Deep from human vanity, And the Pride of Life that planned her, stilly couches she. View quote
Thomas Hardy
Everybody in Vanity Fair must have remarked how well those live who are comfortably and thoroughly in debt; how they deny themselves nothing; how jolly and easy they are in their minds. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
We've been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of the futility of all effort and the vanity of all plans. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. View quote
Garrison Keillor
The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away. View quote
Ramakrishna
The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet. View quote
Margaret Atwood
I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
Only men of considerable vanity write books; consistently therewith, I worried lest the world were exchanging an irreplaceable author for a more easily purchased diplomat. (John Kenneth Galbraith)
Speaking much also is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deeds. View quote
Walter Raleigh
Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish. View quote
Walter Raleigh
Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity. View quote
Dylan Thomas
When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind. View quote
Joseph Addison