VANITY QUOTES II
quotations about vanity
Let us see a true-hearted man crushing that vermin called vice, braving that luxury, scorning with easy and simple logic the silly vanity which induces men to appear strong in absurdity and powerful in the abuse of life ... such vanity is always punished by nature, which vindicates its rights.
GEORGE SAND
letter to M. Edmond, March 1863
Just because vanity is human does not mean we shouldn't try to temper it, to rein it in. Otherwise, if we let our sweaty egos run rampant, we wouldn't have much of a society.
RICHARD LAWSON
"Donald Trump's Official Photographer Reportedly Obliges This Vain Request", Vanity Fair, April 4, 2017
So to me, there's a difference between vanity and arrogance that should start to be recognized. The latter is to assume superiority over others; to hold oneself in a position that would enable you to look down upon those around you. But to be vain is to see your merits, be they aesthetic or professional or personal or otherwise. It's to be able to say, "I have worth," or, "I am beautiful," or, "I deserve more," and know deep down that the words couldn't be truer.
MARIE SOUTHARD OSPINA
"If Vanity Is Loving Yourself, Then I'm More Than Happy To Be Vain", Bustle, February 3, 2016
Lies of vanity are undoubtedly the most common lies; because vanity is one of the most powerful springs of human action, and is usually the besetting sin of every one.
AMELIA OPIE
attributed, Day's Collacon
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.
DALE CARNEGIE
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Foolish men always believe that a little knowledge will give them control over the world, but it is no more than a display of their vanity.
J. P. VINLUCA
Aiko and the Dragon
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
EDWARD BULWER LYTTON
Devereux
He had the vanity to believe men did not like him -- while men simply did not know him.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
November
O vanity! How little is thy force acknowledged or thy operations discerned! How wantonly dost thou deceive mankind under different disguises! Sometimes thou dost wear the face of pity: sometimes of generosity; nay, thou hast the assurance to put on those glorious ornaments which belong only to heroic virtue.
HENRY FIELDING
The Adventures of Joseph Andrews
Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its own. It proclaims itself for what it is.
CHAMFORT
The Cynic's Breviary
The root of vanity is the attachment to one's ego. It will surely ruin one's noble aspirations, and this person is doomed to fail in major undertakings. If one is enthralled by such illusive honor ... he would be a person of lamentable character.
ANONYMOUS
"Stories From the Students' Rules: At Home, Be Dutiful to My Parents", Epoch Times, April 26, 2017
Vanity is the flatterer of the soul.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
Pride is a wound, and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open the wound again and again. In men, it seldom heals and often grows septic.
MICHAEL AYRTON
The Maze Maker
Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense
Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can't nobody fly with all that sh*t. Wanna fly, you got to give up the sh*t that weighs you down.
TONI MORRISON
Song of Solomon
The vanity that makes us swell up. The vanity that does not have long life, because it is like a soap bubble. The vanity that does not give us true gain. What profit comes to the person for all the effort he puts into worrying? He is anxious to appear, to pretend, to seem. This is vanity. If we want to speak simply: vanity is covering up real life. And this makes the soul sick. Because in the end, if they cover up their real life in order to appear or to seem a certain way, all the things they do to pretend ... What is gained?
POPE FRANCIS
Vatican Radio, September 22, 2016
You are vain and wicked -- as a genius should be.
GÜNTER GRASS
The Tin Drum
Often associated with shallowness and ego, vanity is something we all have but few like to admit (it is still considered a deadly sin after all). But is having the sole goal of looking better in your birthday suit really such a bad thing in this day and age?
STUART MARSH
"Why there's no shame in training for vanity", 9Honey, January 16, 2017
Do not make a parade of your vanity.
DIOGENES
attributed, Day's Collacon
Light vanity, insatiate cormorant,
Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Richard II