Vanity Quotes

“Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of the catalysts of evolution in development.”

“Vanity is the most difficult of all sins to confess.”

“The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.”

“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain.”

“I'm thirty-nine.”

“The voice of praise is so pleasing to the ear, that whoever speaks of us is sure to be heard with attention.”

“I want to be a beautiful corpse.”

“If I have a lack of vanity, it's because I am a victim of circumstance.”

“Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims distinction most.”

“A man's vanity is a nasty thing. It's a cancer that eats away at his grace and his wisdom.”

“The rage for admiration is the most vehement of all our passions.”

“The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art, Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.”

“What is a day, what is a year of vain delight?”

“People will pay for anything that enhances their image.”

“You can call me a nobody, but you can't say I'm not good-looking.”

“The vanity of others is only counter to our taste when it is counter to our vanity.”

“Man's vanity is in proportion to his ignorance.”

“To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.”

“What is called liberality is often only the vanity of giving, of which we are fonder than of what we give.”

“For all that praise, which from the great descends, Points to themselves, and in themselves it ends.”