Vanity Quotes

Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity.
Leighton Meester

Fear, Simply, Aging

Censorship is the height of vanity.
Martha Graham

Censorship, Height

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
Nicolas Chamfort

Change, Fashion, Rich

I think male actors get confused by their own vanity.
Shirley MacLaine

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

Business, Ego, Whole

But here is the single greatest thing about the 'Vanity Fair' party: There are uniformed In-N-Out Burger employees circulating the room with trays of cheeseburgers all night long.
Diablo Cody

Greatest, Long, Single

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

Happy, Person, Cannot

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

Faith, Bad, Stupidity

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

Art, Reality, Learn

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

Wisdom, Sense, Common

I imagine my children are going to save me from my vanity and be my passion and fill whatever fears I have of the amazing time I'm having right now being gone.
Gwen Stefani

Time, Amazing, Children

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

However, Modest, Author

I was really excited to get to shave my head - it's something I'd wanted to do for a while and now I had a good excuse. It was nice to shed that level of vanity.
Natalie Portman

Good, Nice, Wanted

Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Work, Best, Care

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

Justice, Him, Honor

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.
Dylan Thomas

Fool, May, Become

Now, I'm not saying I'm fashionable, but there are sociological interests that matter to me, things that are theoretical, political, intellectual and also concerned with vanity and beauty that we all think about but that I try to mix up and translate into fashion.
Miuccia Prada

Beauty, Political, Saying

To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.
Emil Zatopek

Stupid, Nothing, Find

If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to.
Theodore Bikel

Done, Wish, Direct

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

Wife, Pretty, Retire

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.
Gustav Mahler

Delusion, Convention, Renounce

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

After, Young, Nation

She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.
Christina Rossetti

Beauty, Hope, Truth

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.
Leon Trotsky

Country, Two, Find

I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, at least the facelift wasn't vanity, but the hair was.
Gary Numan

Job, Important, Hair

I do think about aging. I have those moments of panic and vanity, but life keeps getting better, so you can't worry about it too much.
Jennifer Garner

Life, Worry, Getting

When you start becoming really successful, the demons start to tempt you - the demons of vanity and self importance, drug abuse, the feelings of fraudulence. But, it's also a thrill. That's what I found weird.
Ethan Hawke

Successful, Self, Feelings

The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.
Pierre de Coubertin

Happiness, Power, Thinking

Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people tend to push it away. It's really too close to the quick of the soul.
Stella Blum

Hate, Person, Feelings

What's so great about working with really funny women is that vanity comes second. Whatever makes it real and funny, they're going to go for, and it's just great.
Paul Feig

Funny, Women, Great

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