Vanity Quotes

“I want to be a beautiful corpse.”

“People will pay for anything that enhances their image.”

“I'm thirty-nine.”

“Vanity is a passion that will never be extinguished in the human mind.”

“All it comes down to is this: I feel like shit but look great.”

“The rage for admiration is the most vehement of all our passions.”

“Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.”

“The vanity of others is only counter to our taste when it is counter to our vanity.”

“To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.”

“The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.”

“A little water never hurt anyone... besides, people are always telling me I'm dripping with good looks.”

“The desire to appear clever often prevents one from being so.”

“I am not going to get on my knees, I have got a new suit on.”

“The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.”

“Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of the catalysts of evolution in development.”

“The voice of praise is so pleasing to the ear, that whoever speaks of us is sure to be heard with attention.”

“We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.”

“Does the silk-worm expend her yellow labours for thee? For thee does she undo herself?”

“Vanity is the foundation of the most ridiculous and contemptible vices.”

“Fame is the scentless sunflower, with a gilded crown of leaves, but no sweetness.”