639 Quotes About Vanity

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

One altar forever is preserved, that whereon we burn incense to the supreme idol,--ourselves, our god is great, and money is his Prophet! We devastate nature in order to make sacrifice to him; we boast that we have conquered Matter and forget that it is matter that has forever enslaved us.

A dead man’s vanity: his ashes full of life that cannot be deceased before a living being’s pride.

They who prosper take on airs of vanity.

Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.

Chess is a matter of vanity.

All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.

The vain being is the really solitary being.

If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television.