quotations about vanity
Vanity is not a happy life. It is one marked by masks, facades, manipulation, false worship, and an insatiable desire for attention that makes the entire world a stage with only one spotlight for ourselves.
JEFFREY F. KIRBY
"In Lent, beware of vanity that always tries to canonize itself", CRUX, March 19, 2017
Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity--
So it be new, there's no respect how vile--
That is not quickly buzzed into his ears?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Richard II
Vanity has no greater foe than vanity.
ROBERT RECORDE
attributed, Day's Collacon
Vanity is my favorite sin.
AL PACINO
The Devil's Advocate
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.
LISA KLEYPAS
Devil in Winter
Let us thank God for imparting unto us poor weak mortals the inestimable blessing of vanity; how many half-witted votaries of the arts--poets, painters, actors, musicians--live upon this food, and scarcely any other.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
attributed, Day's Collacon
Follow not after vanity.
DHAMMAPADA
attributed, Day's Collacon
There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.
MARK TWAIN
Notebook, 1898
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretense to make it live.
JOSEPH CONRAD
Lord Jim