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I used to think getting old was about vanity but actually it's about losing people you love.

Power, like vanity, is insatiable. Nothing short of omnipotence could satisfy it completely.

They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.

It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where 't is kept is lighter than vanity.

Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

Most of us would be far enough from vanity if we heard all the things that are said about us.

The vanity of being asked advice often makes us confirm the opinion of those that consult us.

I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake of divine vanity.

I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.

Cast out pride and vanity; have no thought of trying to rule over others or of outdoing them.

I am vain. I think vanity is a good thing. It's done more good things for me than it has not.

I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

That was the source of my vanity and my cowardice: always I believed everyone was watching me.

Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.

The most effectual way to be deceived is to believe oneself more cunning than one's neighbors.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

All is vanity and everybody's vain. Women are terribly vain. So are men - more so, if possible.

Humility counts for much, but it may be that vanity does not dispossess that admirable quality.

Men do not take to vanity, because they are taught at an early age that it is wrong to be vain.

After I have said what is required by my vanity and my morality, I may find a moment for Truth.

The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.

Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad.

Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.

Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.

Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.

I have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did.

A fundamental condition of Being is slavery. Man is the slave of God, and God that of His vanity.

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

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

We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.

The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.

I doubt if there ever was a man who was not gratified by being told that he was liked by the women.

There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.

The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.

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

Praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.

I think if you try to look for something to show off as an actor, vanity can get the better of you.

There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.

In my opinion, better far it be To destroy vanity within my life Than to destroy my life in vanity.

The judgments our enemies make about us come nearer to the truth than those we make about ourselves.

Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind.

Vanity is the most despotic and iniquitous of masters, and I can never be the slave of my own vices.

In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat.

No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.

The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.

It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love.

Imperfections would not be half so much taken notice of, if vanity did not make proclamation of them.

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