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Vanity Quotes

We shouldn’t be too hard on vanity. It can be a mark of respect for the world.

– Howard Jacobson

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

– Gustav Mahler

We really care about photography at ‘Vanity Fair.’

– Graydon Carter

It’s very nice to be in a show where your vanity is completely out of the picture.

– Joel Kinnaman

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

– Julian Casablancas

I have a lot of vanity.

– Jack Nicholson

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

– Jonathan Swift

Cultures render their icons in their own image. Which comes down to vanity, in some sense.

– Joel Edgerton

I wasn’t raised in a household where vanity was celebrated. That just wasn’t on the top of our list.

– Jennifer Garner

I declare I would rather be a kitten and cry, ‘Mew!’ than live as I see many of my female acquaintances do, tearing each other’s characters to pieces, and wearing out their lives in vanity and vexation of spirit.

– Jane Welsh Carlyle

I have this theory that people in Hollywood don’t read. They read ‘Vanity Fair’ and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.

– Jackie Collins

I should have more vanity.

– Amy Brenneman

It’s a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.

– J. Tillman

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

– Jane Austen

So when I look in the mirror I’m driven by both vanity and fear.

– Andy Whitfield

The whole vanity aspect of building up different muscles – I have no interest.

– Andrew Lincoln

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

– Blaise Pascal

My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town.

– Adelbert von Chamisso

‘Vanity Fair’ did this grid thing a couple years ago, connecting people who’ve worked together, and I had the most branches on it or whatever, because I’d worked with so-and-so and so-and-so worked with so-and-so, and I was kind of in the middle.

– Bill Hader

My greatest vanity is my skin. It is the colour of gingerbread and, thanks to my mother’s genes, smooth and mostly blemish-free.

– Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Is there something psychologically wrong with David Gregory? No, besides the usual superhuman vanity of a television professional. He is just not a great host of a news talk show!

– Alex Pareene

I’m forever being told that I’m an odd-looking actress, so it’s great playing parts where there’s no vanity. You just look as rough as you possibly can!

– Anna Maxwell Martin

When you have a lot of success you don’t need vanity any more.

– Amelie Nothomb

Vanity is my favourite sin.

– Al Pacino

Vanity is but the surface.

– Blaise Pascal

Michael Lewis, author of ‘Moneyball,’ got special access for a profile of Obama for ‘Vanity Fair’ – but Obama insisted on redlining his quotes.

– Ben Shapiro

My most treasured item is the brown leather bag that my mum bought me from a little Italian shop for my 21st. It’s supposed to be a vanity bag, but I use it as a handbag.

– Felicity Jones

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn’t do to upset one’s own vanity.

– Dylan Thomas

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

– George Sand

The unforgivable political sin is vanity; the killer diet is sour grapes.

– Neil Kinnock

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