Vanity Quotes

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

Dreams, Men, May

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
Mark Twain

Call, Dumb, Animal

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

Women, Woman, Personal

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Pride, Hardest, Wound

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

Person, May, Words

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
Samuel Butler

Ignorance, Pride, Arrogance

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Hard, Obstinate, Cases

Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
Victor Hugo

Stupidity, Acts, Talks

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Great, Influence, Welcome

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
Victor Hugo

Woman, Her, Word

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

Good, Women, Beautiful

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

Jealousy, Pain, Give

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

Living, Honor, Dead

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

Money, Bad, Flattery

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
Thomas Carlyle

Life, Heart, Thought

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

Christmas, Die, Knew

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

Keep, Far, Company

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

Patience, Offensive

What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Giving, Give, Call

We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Vanity is but the surface.
Blaise Pascal

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
Blaise Pascal

Time, Knowledge, Science

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
Blaise Pascal

Ignorance, Present, Cause

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
Vincent Van Gogh

Men, Become, Ambition

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
Charles Caleb Colton

Love, Happiness, Fashion

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Giving, Enjoy, Generosity

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Wish, Pride, Pay

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
George Eliot

Love, Cannot, Return

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
John Keats

Wisdom, Wise, Give

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.
Thomas Huxley

Wise, Nothing, Once

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