639 Quotes About Vanity

I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool. There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both. The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.

Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair.

And yet, after all, what is posthumous fame? Altogether vanity.

And what after all is everlasting fame? Altogether vanity.

My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read.

He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth.

VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass.

They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.

Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.