When blessed with wealth, let them withdraw from the competition of vanity and be modest, retiring from ostentation, and not be the slaves of fashion.
The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.
A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.
Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action.
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.
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.
It's very nice to be in a show where your vanity is completely out of the picture.
One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.
God is the only evil. His vanity made him the devil.
Love is that enviable state that knows no envy or vanity, only empathy and a longing to be greater than oneself.
The rationalism of the creative minds was tempered by abundant fantasies, and the supreme beauty of the monuments was probably spoiled by the circumambient vanities and ugliness; in a few cases the Greeks came as close to perfection as it was possible to do, yet they were human and imperfect.
What is vanity but the longing to survive?
Talking about your hair becomes a framework for talking about your vanity, your self-esteem, your relationships with your family, your mortality.
Love based upon money and vanity forms the most stubborn of passions.
To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.
The meaning of life is 'the ultimate questioner's vanity. '
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.
What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.
Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.
Okay, sense of humor: plus one. Being able to laugh at yourself: plus one. Being able to laugh at other people without being mean: plus one. Vanity: minus one.