Vanity Quotes | Sayings on the Shallowness of Vanity

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
– François de La Rochefoucauld

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Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.
– Will Smith

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Silly talk is a sign of shallowness. Foolish vanity is a mark of stupidity.
– Dr T.P.Chia

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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

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Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
– George Sand

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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.
– Tom Wolfe

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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.
– Samuel Butler

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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
– Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.
– Julian Casablancas

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Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.
– Matthew McConaughey

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Cast out pride and vanity; have no thought of trying to rule over others or of outdoing them.
– Wallace D. Wattles

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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
– Tennessee Williams

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The vanity of others is only counter to our taste when it is counter to our vanity.
– Friedrich Nietzsche

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The fly on the water buffalo’s back thinks he is taller than the water buffalo.

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Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.
– Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine

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Whatever accomplishment you boast of in the world, there is someone better than you.

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They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
– Ambrose Bierce

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A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

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