Every self-respecting act of persuasion must find appeal to curiosity, then to vanity, and lastly to kindness or remorse. Isabella looked down and slowly nodded.

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.

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.

It’s all about vanity, isn’t it? I think it says something about people if they can’t do it

All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, was but an unimportant, a seemingly barren and negligible effort, lasting only for a few moments in the life of the galaxy. When...

I am less to you than your ivory Hermes or your silver Faun. You will like them always. How long will you like me? Till I have my first wrinkle, I suppose. I know, now,...

Virtue was vanity dressed up and waiting for applause.

But if we reason it out simply and not try to be one bit fancy, then what sort of pride can you possibly take or what’s the sense of ever having it, if man is...

If I’d been born ugly, you’d never have heard of Pelé.

She raised herself up on an elbow, stroked my forehead & said in a hushed half-whisper, ‘You will be famous.’ “The seed was planted. Ambition fed on the compost of my vanity.

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.

But who bothers looking beyond the surface? Who even knows anything about Cinderella’s Prince Charming – other than he’s a handsome prince?

When you build a fence around yourself, you’ll wonder why people are afraid to approach you, because the pride in the fence is the cause of your blindness.

I’m not motivated by vanity, glory or the quest for power.

That which attracts the world must please and pander to the self-importance of man. The world itself is a vain show, and likes its own. Consequently there is nothing which so carries the mass of...

In an earlier age, it might have been possible to believe that goodness would prevail over pride, but not anymore. The proud could be proud with impunity, because there was nobody to contradict him in...

What men classify as living is often but the discontentment of making oneself itch just to enjoy the scratch.

Forget plastic surgery. Enhance your beauty by getting those around you drunk.

No-one loves another More than he loves whatever another within may haveThat is part of one’s self

A man’s vanity is more fragile that you might think. It’s easy for us to mistake shyness for coldness, and silence for indifference.

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

What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one’s name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.

People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look — like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.

Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is the personal object of a divine plan?

…most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same.

The moment men begin to care more for education than for religion they begin to care more for ambition than for education. It is no longer a world in which the souls of all are...

I was good at being charming, one of my very few vanities.

So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dramas learned by their ancestors æons ago.

Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see …each other in life. Vanity, fear, desire, competition– all such distortions within our own egos–...

In our more arrogant moments, the sin of pride—or superbia, in Augustine’s Latin formulation—takes over our personalities and shuts us off from those around us. We become dull to others when all we seek to...

Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It’s a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is.

This life is full of vanity

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have...

Ser vampiro es algo que menosprecia la vanidad

Praise is a very used, but always new, of surrendering to vanity

Mirror Mirror on the Wall,Who’s fairest of them all?I’m Mona Lisa and She is plain,But the truth is – we all are Vain.

Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?

I’ve loved many women…I’m not going to lie to you, but it never works…vanity always gets in the way.

The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.

But I begin to fancy you don’t like me. How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me. (Catherine Linton, nee Earnshaw)

I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake ofdivine vanity.

There’s something ugly about a pretty boy who knows he’s pretty and assumes everyone else know it too.

How beautiful would it be if we could just see souls instead of bodies? To see love and compassion instead of curves.

Never trust someone that claims they care nothing of what society thinks of them. Instead of conquering obstacles, they simply pretend they don’t exist.

You don’t know how shallow you are, or how narcissistic, until you find yourself in danger of acquiring a facial scar.”On the plus side, it’s so situated as potentially to make me look tough and...

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.

[He] didn’t like to think of himself as vain, but there were definitely times when he wished there was someone on hand to take his photograph.

The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.

But the more shrewdly and earnestly we study the histories of men, the less ready shall we be to make use of the word ‘artificial.’ Nothing in the world has ever been artificial. Many customs,...