Vanity Quotes

I believe the secret of the success of psychoanalysis resides in people's vanity.

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to mak...

There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportuniti...

I won't tolerate vanity in a man, though I will in a woman.

I felt how much better and more dignified it was for me to show off the finer side of my soul than o...

Nothing should be so greatly feared as empty fame.

How good it is when you have roast meat or suchlike foods before you, to impress on your mind that t...

Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for tha...

You can never see yourself the way you are to someone else - to a man looking at you, from behind, w...

Those who are vain have little ability to feel grateful.

Then the cow asked:"What is a mirror?""It is a hole in the wall," said the cat. "You look in it, and...

Did I know myself less, I might perhaps venture to handle something or other to the bottom, and to b...

Difficulty is a coin which the learned conjure with so as not to reveal the vanity of their studies ...

Atheism being a proposition as unnatural as monstrous, difficult also and hard to establish in the h...

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

Long ago one of the Cynic philosophers strutted through the streets of Athens in a torn mantle to ma...

The cemetery was vanity transmogrified into stone. Instead of growing more sensible in death, the in...

Her eyes are shockingly black - shocking not because black eyes are particularly rare, but because s...

It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, o...

The unforgivable political sin is vanity the killer diet is sour grapes.

But how can anyone put a bridle on man's vanity and arrogance? But how can Purity walk the earth wit...

So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dra...

All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, was but an unimportant, a seemi...

The courageous testimony of Dr. Faust that a maiden's smile is more precious than history, philosoph...

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

I am less to you than your ivory Hermes or your silver Faun. You will like them always. How long wil...

I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted ...

Besides, nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of ...

Why should he watch the hideous corruption of his soul?

But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They ar...

She was not vain enough to work her will against the world. But she could use the things the world h...

The alchemist picked up a book that someone in the caravan had brought. Leafing through the pages, h...

What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to preven...

Human vanity is so constituted that it stiffens before difficulties. The more an object conceals its...

I would have chosen any other than this for my prison. A rhinoceros is as ugly as a human being, and...

Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst...

There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to b...

The virtues are economists, but some of the vices are also...Pride is handsome, economical; pride er...

Vanity dies hard, in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by hea...

Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity; so they have betaken, themselves to errour. T...

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to discl...

The tyrant is a child of PrideWho drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity,Until from h...

Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see .....

There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you w...

If I really seem vain, it is that I am only vain in my ways—not in my heart. The worst women are tho...

But you are too lovely even to care to be kind as others are.

It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.

The devil…the prowde spirite…cannot endure to be mocked.

For as love is oftentimes won with beauty, so it is not kept, preserved, and continued, but by virtu...

guileless and without vanity,we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our o...

I tell you, my dear, Narcissus was no egoist… he was merely another of us who, in our unshatterable ...

Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled

There is a code of behavior, she knew, whose seventh article (it may be) says that on occasions of t...

He who despises himself, nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser. (Nietz

In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinen...

It was in the reign of George II. that the above-named personages lived and quarrelled ; good or bad...

I hope the artist who illustrates this work will take care to do justice to his portrait. Mr. Clive ...

The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts; b...

Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?

The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immed...

She also considered very seriously what she would look like in a little cottage in the middle of the...

Ere the horne'd owl hoot Once and twice and thrice there shall Go among the blind brown worms News o...

Vanity is my favourite sin.

In our more arrogant moments, the sin of pride—or superbia, in Augustine's Latin formulation—takes o...

[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of...

But a man's beauty represents inner, functional truths: his face shows what he can do. And what is t...

If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themsel...

In an earlier age, it might have been possible to believe that goodness would prevail over pride, bu...

However anxious one is to reach one’s goal, one can excuse delays on the route when these are caused...

Amongst democratic nations men easily attain a certain equality of conditions: they can never attain...

I was sorry for her; I was amazed, disgusted at her heartless vanity; I wondered why so much beauty ...

Alas, my being the James Bond of vampires isn't the whole issue. Vanity must wait.

The Rose does not preen herself to catch my eye. She blooms because she blooms. A saint is a saint u...

But if we reason it out simply and not try to be one bit fancy, then what sort of pride can you poss...

Very often inertia, selfishness, and vanity play the greatest role in our trust in others; inertia w...

It would be a great mistake to suppose that it is sufficient not to become personal yourself. For by...

If human nature were not base, but thoroughly honourable, we should in every debate have no other ai...

He wil sooner lose his best friend, then his least jest.

I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs ...

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

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

The charm of fame is so great, that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

He can be made to take a positive pleasure in the perception that the two sides of his life are inco...

Every self-respecting act of persuasion must find appeal to curiosity, then to vanity, and lastly to...

She [Mrs. Badger] was surrounded in the drawing-room by various objects, indicative of her painting ...

He [Old Mr. Turveydrop] was a fat old gentleman with a false complexion, false teeth, false whiskers...

But that, in shutting out the light of day, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and hea...

What a situation!' cried Miss Squeers; '...What is the reason that men fall in love with me, whether...

How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is th...

The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures b...

He could see her planting violets on his grave, a solitary figure in a grey cloak. What a ghastly tr...

You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing— your vanity is at stake. You discover a tric...

There’s just something unsettling about studying your reflection. It’s not a matter of being dissati...

Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It’s a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks ...

Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!

Vanity is a defensive quality. it contains an element of fear.

The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down!