639 Quotes About Vanity

Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity; so they have betaken, themselves to errour. Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.

All success in life comes to naught if it is laced with vanity.

One Must Choose Among Both Parties Either To Be A Wise Man That Die To Live In Righteousness And Blissfulness For Eternity Or Be A Foolish Man That Lives To Die For Vanity.

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The World will give you hopeless vanity, but what will you give the World?

The Rose does not preen herself to catch my eye. She blooms because she blooms. A saint is a saint until he knows he is one.

I believe the secret of the success of psychoanalysis resides in people's vanity.

Gracious Providence, to whom I owe all my powers, why didst thou not withhold some of those blessings I possess, and substitute in their place a feeling of self-confidence and contentment?

She had in truth no abstract propensity to malice: she did not dislike Lily because the latter was brilliant and predominant, but because she thought that Lily disliked her. It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.