Vanity Quotes

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice. -Walter Savage Landor

 

A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a rougue to retire upon. -Thomas Moore

 

But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth. -Rebecca H. Davis

 

Censorship is the height of vanity. -Martha Graham

 

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead. -Francois de La Rochefoucauld

 

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality? -Lou Reed

 

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.- Unknown

 

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance. - Unknown

 

“Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others. - Unknown

 

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

 

Vanity is the quicksand of reason -George Sand

 

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. -Thomas Wolfe

 

Beauty's sister is vanity, and its daughter lust. -Author Unknown

 

There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.-Mark Twain

 

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.-Francois de La Rochefoucauld

 

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.- Bible

 

Vanity, like murder, will out.- Hannah Parkhouse Cowley

 

We say little if not egged on by vanity.- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

 

I am fly and you are flew which means you were Fly before I came thru.- Slightly AddictedVanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man. -Robert Louis Stevenson

 

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. -Logan Pearsall Smith

 

The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.-Friedrich Nietzsche

 

If vanity does not overthrow all our virtues, at least she makes them totter. -François de la Rochefoucauld

 

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity. -Henri Bergson