Vanity Quotes

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
~Robert Louis Stevenson


The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
~Thomas Carlyle


Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
~Logan Pearsall Smith


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


Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.
~Louis Kronenberger


The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.
~Helen Rowland


If vanity does not overthrow all our virtues, at least she makes them totter. ~François de la Rochefoucauld


When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudice, and motivated by pride and vanity.
~Dale Carnegie


The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.
~Henri Bergson


Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
~Joseph Conrad


We speak little if not egged on by vanity.
~François de la Rochefoucauld


There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
~Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton


Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
~Joseph Conrad


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


To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life.
~Lord Chesterfield


No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
~Anthony Trollope


There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
~Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton


I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.
~Jane Austen


Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it.
~John Adams


Never "just run out for a few minutes" without looking your best. This is not vanity -- it's self-liking. Your face is always on display.
~Estee Lauder


Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
~François de la Rochefoucauld


Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld


Beauty's sister is vanity, and its daughter lust.
~Author Unknown


One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.
~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche


There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it. ~Mark Twain


The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that's laughable is vanity.
~Henri Bergson


Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
~Benjamin Franklin


Self-love seems so often unrequited.
~Anthony Powell


The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.
~Thomas Wolfe


Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
~Bible


Vanity is the quicksand of reason
~George Sand


I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
~Bible


Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.
~Blaise Pascal