Vanity Quotes

One altar forever is preserved, that whereon we burn incense to the supreme idol,--ourselves, our god is great, and money is his Prophet! We devastate nature in order to make sacrifice to him; we boast that we have conquered Matter and forget that it is matter that has forever enslaved us.

~ Kakuzō Okakura

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.

~ George Michael

Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

~ Pope Francis

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

~ Miguel De Cervantes

So when I look in the mirror I'm driven by both vanity and fear.

~ Andy Whitfield

There will always be those little minds who, out of vanity or intellectual display, will attempt to destroy faith in the very foundations of life.

~ Ezra Taft Benson

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

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

~ Julian Casablancas

My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely.

~ Matthew Macfadyen

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.

~ Jean De La Bruyère