Vanity Quotes

You don't know how shallow you are, or how narcissistic, until you acquire a facial scar. On the plus side, it's so situated as to make me look tough and worldly. On the downside, I'm never kissing my dog again.

~ Rodney Ulyate

Life may be scaryBut it’s only temporary.And this is perhaps the most comforting conclusion to be reached if one discounts the possibility of meaning.

~ Quentin S. Crisp

You are vain and wicked- as a genius should be.

~ Günter Grass

I won't tolerate vanity in a man, though I will in a woman.

~ Larry Mcmurtry

Virtue was vanity dressed up and waiting for applause.

~ Richard Flanagan

She had in truth no abstract propensity to malice: she did not dislike Lily because the latter was brilliant and predominant, but because she thought that Lily disliked her. It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.

~ Edith Wharton

Trends are about as fickle as the direction of the wind, as are the legacies of those who flow with them.

~ Criss Jami

Social Media is a shared delusion of grandeur.

~ Michael P. Naughton

Why should he watch the hideous corruption of his soul?

~ Oscar Wilde

The problem is hedonism. The problem is the preening vanity and selfishness of 'coming out,' of parading private inclinations, of a kind that repel normal people, as if those inclinations were, all by themselves, marks of authenticity and virtue, of suffering and oppression.

~ John Derbyshire

Grandiosity is when we are wrapped up in winning life's false contest. This happens only when we live to impress the abusive parents in our heads, not when we are soberly and philosophically working to advance civilization.

~ Steven Franssen

Fame is vanity's bait.

~ Toba Beta

The charm of fame is so great, that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

~ Blaise Pascal

Will you destroy something in order to make it beautiful?Will you avoid something in order to fall in love with it?Will you sacrifice something just so that you get it?Will you maintain distance from someone in order to get him close?We often make these mistakes.Life is short, every second counts, every moment is precious.Live at, live for and live always in present, for thats what you have right now with you, who knows what will tomorrow bring.

~ Hanif Hassan Barbhuiya

In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates.

~ William Hazlitt

But how can anyone put a bridle on man's vanity and arrogance? But how can Purity walk the earth without covering her feet with mud?

~ Nikos Kazantzakis

When the shine is wearing off and the underlying cracks of a garlanded lifestyle become painfully apparent, reality may inexorably take its toll and gruelingly reveal the presence of a blatant and hideous gap of irrelevance and vanity. (Could the milk man be the devil? )

~ Erik Pevernagie

The physical vanity of the diet-and-exercise obsessive is recast as the pursuit of a kind of ritual purity, hedged about with taboos and guilt trips and mysticized by yoga.

~ Ross Douthat

The true business of the philosopher, though not flattering to his vanity, is merely to ascertain, arrange and condense the facts.

~ John Leslie

What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.

~ Paulo Coelho

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

~ J.b. Priestley

Praise is a very used, but always new, of surrendering to vanity

~ José De Alencar

Ere the horne'd owl hoot Once and twice and thrice there shall Go among the blind brown worms News of thy great burial; When the pomp is passed away, 'Here's a King,' the worms shall say.

~ Adelaide Crapsey

Lockhart'll sign anything if it stands still long enough.

~ J.k. Rowling

A man's vanity is more fragile that you might think. It's easy for us to mistake shyness for coldness, and silence for indifference.

~ Lisa Kleypas

There's something ugly about a pretty boy who knows he's pretty and assumes everyone else know it too.

~ Nova Ren Suma

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

~ Blaise Pascal

We all know you're beautiful, Scott.

~ Becca Fitzpatrick

Now I feel like James Bond. Suave and intelligent, breaking all the codes while looking fabulous.

~ Jim Butcher

guileless and without vanity,we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our own skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness.

~ Toni Morrison

I was sorry for her; I was amazed, disgusted at her heartless vanity; I wondered why so much beauty should be given to those who made so bad a use of it, and denied to some who would make it a benefit to both themselves and others.But, God knows best, I concluded. There are, I suppose, some men as vain, as selfish, and as heartless as she is, and, perhaps, such women may be useful to punish them.

~ Anne Brontë

She also considered very seriously what she would look like in a little cottage in the middle of the forest, dressed in a melancholy gray and holding communion only with the birds and trees; a life of retirement away from the vain world; a life into which no man came. It had its attractions, but she decided that gray did not suit her.

~ A.a. Milne

But who bothers looking beyond the surface? Who even knows anything about Cinderella's Prince Charming - other than he's a handsome prince?

~ Mandy Hubbard

But I begin to fancy you don't like me. How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me. (Catherine Linton, nee Earnshaw)

~ Emily Brontë

No matter what the circumstances, no man can completely escape from vanity.

~ Shūsaku Endō

It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.

~ Edith Wharton

It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their deficiencies than of their available gifts.

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.

~ Joseph Conrad

Long ago one of the Cynic philosophers strutted through the streets of Athens in a torn mantle to make himself admired by everyone by displaying his contempt for convention. One day Socrates met him and said: 'I see your vanity through the hole in your mantle.' Your dirt too, sir, is vanity, and your vanity is dirty.

~ Milan Kundera

The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.

~ Colum Mccann