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Quotes About Vanity

Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair.
~ Alexandre Dumas-fils
moral vanity is the snare of good people.
~ Margaret Deland
I could puke on myself and still be good looking.
~ Scott Disick
Donald Trump seems to do a good job mentioning his own name.
~ Barack Obama
Looking at somebody looking good is so... boring.
~ Gaby Hoffmann
Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
the best of all good friends is pride.
~ Gertrude Atherton
To bless thine enemy is a good way to satisfy thy vanity.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
I am vain. I think vanity is a good thing. It's done more good things for me than it has not.
~ Matthew McConaughey
A lot of movie stars are not great actors; they're just very good-looking. And when they start to age and they don't have the looks any more, then it's over.
~ Michael Caine
I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, 'Wow, I'm really great-looking.'... I think I'm the greatest, anyway.
~ Iggy Pop
In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
~ John Ruskin
The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
~ Blaise Pascal
So I wanted to show what I did with the money. So I got red silk shirts, beautiful hats, wonderful saddles, a great horse, and two gold teeth. So that was the way I did it.
~ Eli Wallach
It was needless, after this, to say that all was vanity and vexation of spirit; for it is impossible to derive happiness from the company of those whom we deprive of happiness.
~ Thomas Paine
Vanity should never tempt a player to engage in a combat at the risk of loss of health. It is bad enough to lose without the additional annoyance of paying doctors' bills.
~ Emanuel Lasker
The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
If somebody tells you 'History will never forgive you,' just laugh at him! Because when the history comes, you won't be here! The threat of history never forgives you is a useless threat!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Oh my god. I just hung around with an unpretty person. Excuse me while I go home to scrub myself with expensive body wash and a pink loofah, to rid myself of the unpretty germs.
~ Nicole Richie
As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.
~ Abraham Cowley
What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.
~ Victor Hugo
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Honor is but an empty bubble.
~ John Dryden
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
~ Bernard Berenson