Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Johnson

There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own beneficence.

Willa Cather

It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled.

Vanity is as old as the mammoth.

Thomas Haden Church

I have a healthy sense of vanity. I like to look good for myself, which is what a lot of women say. I want to stay fit.

Thomas Chalmers

Guard against that vanity which courts a compliment, or is fed by it.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

A coxcomb is four-fifths affectation and one-fifth vanity.

Jeff Lindsay

I was good at being charming, one of my very few vanities.

Jeremy London

I don't really lift weights. It's kind of a vanity thing that I don't get into.

George Sand

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

George Sand

Vanity is the most despotic and iniquitous of masters, and I can never be the slave of my own vices.

Jason Patric

Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very, very blurred.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.

Evelyn Waugh

Quomondo sedet sola civitas. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Gregory Peck

If you have to tell them who you are, you aren't anybody.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many a morality.

Franz Kafka

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

Fernando Pessoa

Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.

Fernando Pessoa

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.

Francis Quarles

Too much is a vanity; enough is a feast.

Florence King

The joker in the deck of lesbian fidelity is female vanity: no woman of fifty is going to undress in front of a woman of twenty no matter how much she might lust for her.

Florence Nightingale

By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.

Flannery O'Connor

I never understand how writers can succumb to vanity - what you work the hardest on is usually the worst.

Fernando Torres

Purpose without virtue is vanity.

Helen Keller

Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation.

George Eliot

Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of mental make in which one of us differs from another.

Jean de la Bruyere

There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery.

Jay Baruchel

My vanity and narcissism will never let me go too far.

Joseph Joubert

It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.

Mohsin Hamid

I'm not sure if guys are supposed to read Vanity Fair. I feel very metrosexual with it but am not sure it's in my comfort zone.

Julian Casablancas

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.