Vanity Quotes

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.
Tom Wolfe

Loneliness, Cure, Surest

There is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity.
Nigella Lawson

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

Laughter, Fault, Cure

I think when you do comedy, you play by a different set of rules. No one really wants you to be in that good shape. Being in good shape implies a level of vanity that isn't necessarily funny.
Seth Rogen

Funny, Good, Different

Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.
David Frum

Group, Speech, Writers

Doing press is like eating at McDonald's: while it's going on it's vaguely enjoyable - you're seduced by your own vanity and taking yourself rather seriously - but immediately afterwards you feel sick.
Emily Mortimer

Yourself, Sick, Rather

I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.
Wallace Shawn

Since, Birth, Vain

My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely.
Matthew Macfadyen

Romantic, Lovely, Married

I primarily have had my career in comedy, and that is something that I have never been too concerned about because I know there is really no room for vanity in comedy. Comedy comes from pain and it is a lot easier to empathize with somebody who is out of shape.
Chris Pratt

Pain, Career, Comedy

Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring.
Bob Considine

Work, May, Find

Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad.
Eric Ries

Bad, Numbers, Publish

I've loved 'Vanity Fair' since I was 16 years old. You know, we're all colonial hangovers in India, steeped in English literature. It is one of these novels that I read under the covers at my convent boarding school in Simla.
Mira Nair

School, Old, Loved

I'm not invited to the Vanity Fair dinner where they watch the Oscars - or even the Oscars themselves - so I sit at home and watch it with a bunch of close friends.
Brett Ratner

Home, Friends, Themselves

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.
George Savile

Forget, Teaching, Blockhead

The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere.
Maria Mitchell

As a person I'm perfectly vain, I'm just vainer as an actor about my ability. My acting vanity trumps my human vanity.
Rufus Sewell

Human, Person, Acting

My most treasured item is the brown leather bag that my mum bought me from a little Italian shop for my 21st. It's supposed to be a vanity bag, but I use it as a handbag.
Felicity Jones

Italian, Shop, Mum

For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Friend, Why, Another

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.
Patricia Meyer Spacks

Women, Men, Insult

When women smoke, it is hard for them to quit because they are so worried about their weight; it's a vanity issue and a mindset.
Loni Anderson

Women, Hard, Quit

I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity.
Lord Mountbatten

Goodness, Check, Almighty

I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.
Jackie Collins

Write, Getting, Themselves

If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television. It doesn't do you any favours in terms of showing you what you look like and what your emotions are.
Clive Anderson

Lost, Emotions, Television

If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television.
Clive Anderson

Lost, Television, Definitely

I think it's good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and begin using your body as an asset or as an extension of your vanity, you've gone too far.
Peter Coyote

Good, Care, Far

I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness.
David Remnick

Mistakes, Thinking, Everything

I don't really lift weights. It's kind of a vanity thing that I don't get into.
Jeremy London

My vanity is not dead. I laugh when I see pictures of myself as I am now-maybe so I won't cry, but just because it is really funny how much I've changed.
Michael Zaslow

Funny, Laugh, Dead

You know, at 35 or at 38 or 40 you really start to see what your body could look like if you just don't do anything all winter long. So that's another motivating factor, our vanity.
Stone Gossard

Long, Another, Start

They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.
Robert Southey

Life, Love, Die

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