VANITY QUOTES V

quotations about vanity

Every present occasion will catch the senses of the vain main; and with that bridle and saddle you may ride him.

SIR PHILIP SIDNEY

Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney

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

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

The Wrecker

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The vanity of others is only counter to our taste when it is counter to our vanity.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Beyond Good and Evil

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Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.

ALEXANDER POPE

"Thoughts on Various Subjects"

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There is more jealousy between rival wits, than rival beauties, for vanity has no sex.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


Vanity is apt to inspire contempt, but that becomes immediately tempered by a gentler and more gracious feeling; for the vain man desires to win our approbation, and in this way he flatters us.

ARTHUR LYNCH

Moods of Life


Vanity is only to be satisfied by gold in floods.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Gobseck

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A man that is deeply in love with himself will probably succeed in his suit owing to a lack of rivals.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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Vanity is often so excessive, that those who are compelled to walk on crutches would fain make us believe they are raised on stilts.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust

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If you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them.

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Tender Is the Night

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Everyone at the bottom of his heart cherishes vanity; even the toad thinks himself good-looking; "rather tawny perhaps, but look at his eye!"

J. WILSON

attributed, Day's Collacon


Human vanity is so constituted that it stiffens before difficulties. The more an object conceals itself from our eyes, the greater the effort we make to seize it, because it pricks our pride, it excites our curiosity and it appears interesting. In fighting for his God everyone, in fact, fights only for the interest of his own vanity, which, of all the passions produced bye the mal-organization of society, is the quickest to take offense, and the most capable of committing the greatest follies.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

The Necessity of Atheism and Other Essays

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To feel vanity on account of anything, is proving that we are not accustomed to it.

PIERRE CLAUDE VICTOIRE BOISTE

attributed, Day's Collacon


"Vanitas vanitatum" has rung in the ears
Of gentle and simple for thousands of years;
The wail still is heard, yet its notes never scare
Either simple or gentle from Vanity Fair.

FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON

Vanity Fair


In the age of Instagram, when every famous face is potentially subject to an iPhone ambush, extreme vanity is more necessity than sin.

GUY TREBAY

"Dermatologist to the famous: The doctor will see you now (if you're a star with a zit)", Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette, April 30, 2017


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

DAVID HEWSON

Macbeth: A Novel


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

ANDRE DUBUS

"The Judge and Other Snakes", Broken Vessels


V is for vanity, every time I look at me
I turn myself on, yeah

CHRISTINA AGUILERA

"Vanity"


Vanity is a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs and chuck us over.

FREDERICK MARRYAT

attributed, Day's Collacon


Vanity is obviously my middle name. I think I inherited the trait from my maternal grandmother who was sure, even as she approached 90, that workmen were still whistling at her ... and perhaps they were.

ADRIENNE KAVELLE

"Ayesha", TAP Into, April 26, 2017