There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in.

Behind all their personal vanity women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

It seems to me that in every culture I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities all is vanity.'

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain neither can he be wise.

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

'Snow White' is an old fairy tale so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It's bizarre.

My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely.

Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

Flattery is a kind of bad money to which our vanity gives us currency.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity must it not be our ambition to become men?

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

Magnanimous people have no vanity they have no jealousy and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And what is more they find it everywhere.

The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth those sanguine groundless hopes and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over on this day his ideal will die.

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity and their love to feed their pride.

The herd seek out the great not for their sake but for their influence and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am.

I think when you do comedy you play by a different set of rules. No one really wants you to be in that good shape. Being in good shape implies a level of vanity that isn't necessarily funny.

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.

Any fear of aging I think is simply vanity.

Stupidity outrage vanity cruelty iniquity bad faith falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men for they may act on their dreams with open eyes to make them possible.

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

The whole business is built on ego vanity self-satisfaction and it's total crap to pretend it's not.