639 Quotes About Vanity

Vanity might be a "sin" according to some lights, but he thought in measured doses it was one of life's allowable simple pleasures. It helped everyone get through their days.

Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said more than three thousand years ago.

True friends are not mirrors where we can always see ourselves reflected in a positive light.

The courageous testimony of Dr. Faust that a maiden's smile is more precious than history, philosophy, education, religion, law, politics,economics, and all the other branches of learning. Learning is another name for vanity. It is the effort of human beings not to be human beings.

If I really seem vain, it is that I am only vain in my ways—not in my heart. The worst women are those vain in their hearts, and not in their ways.

She was the most alone person he had ever met - so intent on staying forever breathtaking that she could never let any of life's glories take her own breath away.

And in the sin of wantingalways to be right, the punishmentis knowing it isn't possible.

The true business of the philosopher, though not flattering to his vanity, is merely to ascertain, arrange and condense the facts.

Those who seek enjoyment in life are the ones that think that the world is a playground.