Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander Pope

And not a vanity is given in vain.

Don DeLillo

If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.

Dylan Thomas

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.

Clive Anderson

If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television. It doesn't do you any favours in terms of showing you what you look like and what your emotions are.

Clive Anderson

If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television.

David Frum

Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.

David Steel

All politicians have vanity. Some wear it more gently than others.

Alfred de Musset

Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.

Andre Dubus

That was the source of my vanity and my cowardice: always I believed everyone was watching me.

Andy Whitfield

So when I look in the mirror I'm driven by both vanity and fear.

Anne Bronte

No; for instead of delivering myself up to the full enjoyment of the as others do, I am always troubling my head about how I could produce the same effect upon canvas; and as that can never be done, it is mere vanity and vexation of spirit.

Anna Friel

I've been on sets where the turnaround is so fast and the budget so small that the actors have been asked to speed things up and save money by changing in the public toilets. There's no room for vanity at times like that. It's the best way: get on with it!

Anna Faris

I feel like all comedy does require a lack of vanity, but multi-cam, especially.

Amelie Nothomb

When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more.

Ambrose Bierce

VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass.

Ambrose Bierce

They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.

Alice Thomas Ellis

Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.

Aesop

Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.

Jane Austen

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

Jane Austen

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

Jane Austen

Vanity, not love, has been my folly.

Arthur Schopenhauer

For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity cannot be satisfied without comparison with others.

Edmund Stoiber

Irresponsibility, cowardice, personal vanity, whining and chaos are becoming the maxims of political action. There is a stink in Berlin - a huge one!

Edith Wharton

Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self depreciation.

Edith Wharton

No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.

Benjamin Franklin

I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed.

Benjamin Franklin

Scarcely have I ever heard or read the introductory phrase, "I may say without vanity," but some striking and characteristic instance of vanity has immediately followed.

Arthur Guiterman

Until the Donkey tried to clear The Fence, he thought himself a Deer.

Arthur Helps

It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live than to be loved by them; and this not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.

Dennis Lehane

Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is. I know this well...Vanity and dishonesty may be vices, but they're also the first forms of protection I ever knew.

Eliza Haywood

those Women who boast the Affections of their Admirers, have a greater share of Vanity than Love ...

William Shakespeare

Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something that had much better be concealed; namely, that their vanity has survived themselves.