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Image of William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Collection: Vanity
Image of Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Collection: Vanity
Image of Logan Pearsall Smith
One's own vanities and humiliations I find a delicious subject for conversation. Things said of me behind my back I don't enjoy, and don't listen to them.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
Collection: Vanity
Image of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Let him who cannot be alone beware of community... Let him who is not in community beware of being alone... Each by itself has profound perils and pitfalls. One who wants fellowship without solitude plunges into the void of words and feelings, and the one who seeks solitude without fellowship perishes in the abyss of vanity, self-infatuation and despair.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Collection: Vanity
Image of Adam Smith
The necessaries of life occasion the great expense of the poor. They find it difficult to get food, and the greater part of their little revenue is spent in getting it. The luxuries and vanities of life occasion the principal expense of the rich, and a magnificent house embellishes and sets off to the best advantage all the other luxuries and vanities which they possess ... It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.
- Adam Smith
Collection: Vanity
Image of Evelyn Waugh
Quomondo sedet sola civitas. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
- Evelyn Waugh
Collection: Vanity
Image of Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Collection: Vanity
Image of Oscar Wilde
If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that...for that, I would give my SOUL for that.
- Oscar Wilde
Collection: Vanity
Image of Jim Morrison
Guileless and without vanity, we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness. Jealousy we understood and thought natural--a desire to have what somebody else had; but envy was a strange, new feeling for us.
- Jim Morrison
Collection: Vanity
Image of Hannah More
There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little.
- Hannah More
Collection: Vanity
Image of Alexander Pope
The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
- Alexander Pope
Collection: Vanity
Image of Mark Twain
My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.
- Mark Twain
Collection: Vanity
Image of Blaise Pascal
Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.
- Blaise Pascal
Collection: Vanity
Image of Edith Wharton
Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self depreciation.
- Edith Wharton
Collection: Vanity
Image of George Sand
Vanity is the most despotic and iniquitous of masters, and I can never be the slave of my own vices.
- George Sand
Collection: Vanity
Image of Jonathan Swift
There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill management makes so contemptible a figure.
- Jonathan Swift
Collection: Vanity
Image of Jonathan Swift
Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman.
- Jonathan Swift
Collection: Vanity
Image of Henry Ward Beecher
There is nothing which vanity does not desecrate.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Collection: Vanity
Image of Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Collection: Vanity
Image of Matt    Chandler
When we see the bankruptcy, slavery, and vanity of everything else, we can finally say, ‘To die is gain.’
- Matt Chandler
Collection: Vanity
Image of Walter Scott
A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
- Walter Scott
Collection: Vanity
Image of Danny Boyle
What you do is take the power [popularity] gives you - which is very temporary and minor but significant - and use it. The danger is that you use it on a vanity project that no one wants to watch.
- Danny Boyle
Collection: Vanity
Image of Tennessee Williams
Vanity, fear, desire, competition - all such distortions within our own egos - condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
- Tennessee Williams
Collection: Vanity
Image of Lewis B. Smedes
Because arrogance is born in personal vanity, arrogant people are driven without mercy. They can never get enough power to fill the soul's needs or enough respect to overcome the fear that they deserve less than they are getting.
- Lewis B. Smedes
Collection: Vanity
Image of Thomas Paine
Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies.
- Thomas Paine
Collection: Vanity
Image of Alfred de Musset
Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.
- Alfred de Musset
Collection: Vanity
Image of Bertrand Russell
I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs me, nothing seems worth doing or worth having done: the only thing that I strongly feel worth while would be to murder as many people as possible so as to diminish the amount of consciousness in the world. These times have to be lived through: there is nothing to be done with them.
- Bertrand Russell
Collection: Vanity
Image of Florence Nightingale
By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.
- Florence Nightingale
Collection: Vanity
Image of Ramakrishna
The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away.
- Ramakrishna
Collection: Vanity
Image of Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Generosity is the vanity of giving.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Collection: Vanity
Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Collection: Vanity
Image of Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Collection: Vanity
Image of John Stuart Mill
When a thing is bought not for its use but for its costliness, cheapness is no recommendation. As Sismondi remarks, the consequence of cheapening articles of vanity, is not that less is expended on such things, but that the buyers substitute for the cheapened article some other which is more costly, or a more elaborate quality of the same thing; and as the inferior quality answered the purpose of vanity equally well when it was equally expensive, a tax on the article is really paid by nobody: it is a creation of public revenue by which nobody loses.
- John Stuart Mill
Collection: Vanity
Image of Mark Twain
All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics.
- Mark Twain
Collection: Vanity
Image of Laozi
Some have lavish garments, carry sharp swords, and feast on food and drink. They possess more than they can spend. This is called the vanity of robbers. It is certainly not the Way.
- Laozi
Collection: Vanity
Image of Blaise Pascal
Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.
- Blaise Pascal
Collection: Vanity
Image of Blaise Pascal
There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.
- Blaise Pascal
Collection: Vanity
Image of Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The judgments our enemies make about us come nearer to the truth than those we make about ourselves.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Collection: Vanity
Image of Conan O'Brien
Vanity Fair magazine reports that former President Clinton and Al Gore haven't spoken to each other since George W. Bush's inauguration. Not only that, Bill and his wife, Hillary, haven't spoken since Richard Nixon's inauguration.
- Conan O'Brien
Collection: Vanity
Image of Abraham Verghese
Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
- Abraham Verghese
Collection: Vanity
Image of George Santayana
We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.
- George Santayana
Collection: Vanity
Image of Edith Wharton
No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.
- Edith Wharton
Collection: Vanity
Image of Walter Scott
He that would soothe sorrow must not argue on the vanity of the most deceitful hopes.
- Walter Scott
Collection: Vanity
Image of Pliny the Elder
Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
- Pliny the Elder
Collection: Vanity
Image of Lionel Shriver
I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not.
- Lionel Shriver
Collection: Vanity
Image of Kanye West
The idea of Kanye and vanity are like, synonymous. But I've put myself in a lot of places where a vain person wouldn't put themselves in. Like what's vanity about wearing a kilt?
- Kanye West
Collection: Vanity
Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many a morality.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Collection: Vanity
Image of Thomas Paine
It was needless, after this, to say that all was vanity and vexation of spirit; for it is impossible to derive happiness from the company of those whom we deprive of happiness.
- Thomas Paine
Collection: Vanity