Vanity Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

65 Vanity Quotes
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“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 Quotes
“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 Quotes
“When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.”
Joyce Carol Oates Quotes
“No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.”
Anthony Trollope Quotes
“Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.”
George Eliot Quotes
“There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.”
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes
“To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself.”
Max Beerbohm Quotes
“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.”
Yousef Karsh Quotes
“Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.”
Joseph Conrad Quotes
“Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair.”
Louisa May Alcott Quotes
“Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.”
Iris Murdoch Quotes
“Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been.”
William E. Woodward Quotes
“A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau Quotes
“Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.”
Francis Bacon Quotes
“The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that's laughable is vanity.”
Henri Bergson Quotes