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It's our vanity that makes us think that what forms part of our world today must be stable and secure. Norman Davies

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

Sophie Swetchine

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

Yousuf Karsh

'Vanity Fair' caught me at a very exciting time in my life filled with night clubs, international fashion shows, celebrities and lots of cash to go around. Sometimes things just fall into place. 'Vanity Fair' was one of those things.

Jeremy Jackson

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

Blaise Pascal

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

Patricia Meyer Spacks

'Vanity Fair' is a left-wing rag.

Roger Ailes

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

Walter Savage Landor

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What's so great about working with really funny women is that vanity comes second. Whatever makes it real and funny, they're going to go for, and it's just great.

Paul Feig

Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring.

Bob Considine

Vanity is but the surface.

Blaise Pascal

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 others think of us.

Jane Austen

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

Howard Jacobson

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

Karl Lagerfeld

There is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity.

Nigella Lawson

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

George Savile

In the vanity of self-consciousness one feels at a long remove above the ordinary love and trustfulness of a simple and pure heart.

Donald G. Mitchell

Vanity is as old as the mammoth.

W. L. George

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.

Jean de la Bruyere

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

Thomas Carlyle

Vanity is my favourite sin.

Al Pacino

I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.

Wallace Shawn

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There's nothing like getting yourself into character and seeing a different person. It really wears on your vanity.

Elisabeth Moss

Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child.

Susanna Moodie

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Eugene O'Neill

Censorship is the height of vanity.

Martha Graham

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.

James Madison

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

Jonathan Swift

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.

John Keats

It's pure vanity that keeps me eating healthy, but I adore fried food and sugar.

Kim Rhodes

I work out because that's my job, but what I enjoy about it, beyond the vanity, is the Zen of it. I like getting out of my head, and one great way to do that is to sweat your face off. And to know that, if you're thinking of anything else, you're not working intensely enough.

Chris Pine