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Vanity of vanities, all is vanity. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. -- Joseph Conrad
The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride. -- Jonathan Swift
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief. -- Jane Austen
It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where 't is kept is lighter than vanity. -- John Bunyan
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. -- George Eliot
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. -- Mark Twain
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
It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am. -- Elle Macpherson
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. -- T. E. Lawrence
Vanity is but the surface. -- Blaise Pascal
The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. -- Tom Wolfe
Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense. -- Julian Casablancas
Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves. -- Benjamin Franklin
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
They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid. -- Ambrose Bierce
The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it. -- Samuel Johnson
Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere. -- Van Wyck Brooks
Vanitas vanitatum has rung in the ears Of gentle and simple for thousands of years; The wail still is heard, yet its notes never scare Either simple or gentle from Vanity Fair. -- Frederick Locker-Lampson
Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you. -- Miguel de Unamuno
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us. -- Jane Austen
If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by vanity only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing. -- Yousuf Karsh
Vanity prevents improvement -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
Vanity: my favorite sin. -- Al Pacino
Vanity is my favourite sin. -- Al Pacino
Vanity, thy name is vampire. -- Jim Butcher
Vanity often produces unreasonable alarm. -- Ann Radcliffe
Vanity is often the unseen spur. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity is the quicksand of reason. -- George Sand
Vanity is definitely my favorite sin. -- John Milton
Vanity is easily duped. Ambition, not. -- Mason Cooley
Vanity is great motivation, to be fair. -- Matthew McConaughey
Vanity and rudeness are seldom seen together. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Vanity is as old as the mammoth. -- W. L. George
Vanity is the healthiest thing in life. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Vanity, not love, has been my folly. -- Jane Austen
Vanity is a motive of immense potency. -- Bertrand Russell
Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. -- Taylor Swift
We really care about photography at Vanity Fair. -- Graydon Carter
We really care about photography at 'Vanity Fair.' -- Graydon Carter
Vanity well fed is benevolent. Vanity hungry is spiteful. -- Mason Cooley
All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics. -- Mark Twain
Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible. -- Richard Steele
Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman. -- Jonathan Swift
Vanity is both a great motivator and a great deceiver. -- Andrew Davidson
Quomondo sedet sola civitas. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity. -- Evelyn Waugh
Vanity is so superficial. It doesn't provide the grounds for progress. -- Ishmael Butler
Vanity remains a feeble weaponThe delusional wearer of it considers herself strong -- Sreesha Divakaran
Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Vanity's ridiculous, be we all fall prey to it from time to time. -- David Eddings
Vanity bids all her sons be brave, and all her daughters chaste and courteous. -- Laurence Sterne
Vanity is a mortgage that must be deducted from the value of a man. -- Otto von Bismarck
Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business. -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches. -- Abraham Verghese
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable. -- Alfred de Musset
Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything. -- Taylor Swift
Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra. -- Blaise Pascal
Vanity, revenge, loneliness, boredom, all apply: lust is one of the least of the reasons for promiscuity. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels. -- St. Jerome
Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it. -- Lady Gaga
Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad. -- Eric Ries
those Women who boast the Affections of their Admirers, have a greater share of Vanity than Love ... -- Eliza Haywood
For my type of story and my kind of writing, I think 'Vanity Fair' is the right forum. -- Dominick Dunne
Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. -- Jane Austen
Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right? -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Vanity is a strange passion; rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices. -- Josh Billings
Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been. -- William E. Woodward
Vanity is the most despotic and iniquitous of masters, and I can never be the slave of my own vices. -- George Sand
The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure. -- Jackie DeShannon
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live. -- Joseph Conrad
Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My father said, Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right? -- Dexter Scott King
Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
My dogs.Bill Blass, after being asked "Who or what is the greatest love of your life?" by Vanity Fair magazine" -- Bill Blass
Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet. -- Margaret Atwood
Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate. -- Margaret Mitchell
My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read. -- Richard Avedon
Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very, very blurred. -- Jason Patric
Vanity is a relative of Pride; Vanity is talkative, pride is silent. When Vanity and Pride get together, they could make monstrosities. -- Samael Aun Weor
Vanity is a silly thing to be obsessed with because... it sounds clichÃ© but it leads you to emptiness; it goes away. -- Kristen Stewart
Vanity does not refer to the opinion a man entertains of himself, but to that which he wishes others to entertain of him. -- William Hazlitt
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said more than three thousand years ago. -- Paulo Coelho
Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
From time to time, just about every Vanity Fair writer has a chance to sell rights to an article or a book to Hollywood. -- Bryan Burrough
From time to time, just about every 'Vanity Fair' writer has a chance to sell rights to an article or a book to Hollywood. -- Bryan Burrough
Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are! -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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
Michael Lewis, author of 'Moneyball,' got special access for a profile of Obama for 'Vanity Fair' - but Obama insisted on redlining his quotes. -- Ben Shapiro
Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth. -- Elizabeth Smart
Vanity is normal in performers. Does it bother other people? All the time. But nine times out of 10, that says more about them than you. -- Tom Hardy
You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere. -- Dave Blood
You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere. -- Dave Blood
I'm not sure if guys are supposed to read Vanity Fair. I feel very metrosexual with it but am not sure it's in my comfort zone. -- Mohsin Hamid
Vanity's really overrated. When I was 20, teenage girls had my picture on the wall... I don't need to be pretty anymore. I just am who I am. -- Michael J. Fox
Stupidity talks, vanity acts. -- Victor Hugo
I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity. -- Diana Vreeland
Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride. -- Joanna Baillie
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
My greatest vanity is my skin. It is the colour of gingerbread and, thanks to my mother's genes, smooth and mostly blemish-free. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we. -- Jean Rostand
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration. -- DeWitt Clinton
Every actress has to face the facts there are younger, more beautiful girls right behind you. Once you've gone beyond the vanity of the business, you'll take on the tough roles. -- Jean Simmons
Music is made one of Satan's most attractive agencies to ensnare souls; but, when turned to a good account, it is a blessing. When abused, it leads the unconsecrated to pride, vanity, and folly. -- Ellen G. White
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
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. -- Julia Roberts
There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in. -- Helen Hayes
The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity. -- Nicolas Chamfort
The harming of animals for any reason is shameful, but torturing them for mere vanity is senseless. Slaughtering animals for their fur or harming them for cosmetic purposes is disgusting and not worth the perfect shade of lipstick. -- Laura Mennell
Pride creates a noise within us which makes the quiet voice of the Spirit hard to hear. And soon, in our vanity, we no longer even listen for it. We can come quickly to think we don't need it. -- Henry B. Eyring
An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them. -- Pope Francis
He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He who seeks gratification shall be disappointed. He who considers himself the servant of his fellow beings shall find the joy of self-expression. He who seeks self-expression shall fall into the pit of arrogance. -- Moshe Safdie
At my funeral, if one said, 'Nick was a generous person,' trust me I won't be doing cartwheels in my coffin. Recognition from people is never and never will be a goal. Some people strive for that respect or honor. Living a life to just reach for the position and status is vanity and sin. -- Nick Vujicic
Samuel Johnson called it the vanity of human wishes, and Buddhists talk about the endless cycle of desire. Social psychologists say we get trapped on a hedonic treadmill. What they all mean is that we wish, plan and work for things that we think will make us happy, but when we finally get them, we aren't nearly as happy as we thought we'd be. -- Alison Gopnik
Religion is the highest vanity. -- Christian Friedrich Hebbel

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