Vanity Quotes - Page 13

The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere.

I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity.

The only sure way of avoiding these evils [vanity and boasting] is never to speak of yourself at all. But when, historically, youare obliged to mention yourself, take care not to drop one single word that can directly or indirectly be construed as fishing for applause.

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science, people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It's bizarre.

It is the utterly destructive quality. When you say vanity, you are thinking of the kind that admires itself in mirrors and buys things to deck itself out in. But that is merely personal conceit. Real vanity is something quite different. A matter not of person but of personality. Vanity says, "I must have this because I am me." It is a frightening thing because it is incurable.

The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.

Vanity is a strong temptation to lying; it makes people magnify their merit, over flourish their family, and tell strange stories of their interest and acquaintance.

I do think about aging. I have those moments of panic and vanity, but life keeps getting better, so you can't worry about it too much.

Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.

I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.

I have a lot of vanity.

Surely in much talk there cannot choose but be much vanity. Loquacity is the fistula of the mind,--ever-running and almost incurable, let every man, therefore, be a Phocion or Pythagorean, to speak briefly to the point or not at all; let him labor like them of Crete, to show more wit in his discourse than words, and not to pour out of his mouth a flood of the one, when he can hardly wring out of his brains a drop of the other.

There is nothing which vanity does not desecrate.

The feminine vanity-case is the graveyard of masculine illusions.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, at least the facelift wasn't vanity, but the hair was.

The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.

The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions.

Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them.

What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.

Too much is a vanity; enough is a feast.

Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.

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