Top Vanity Quotes
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.
T. E. Lawrence
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Dawn Powell
Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.
Leon Trotsky
The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.
Tom Wolfe
What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
Victor Cherbuliez
Charles Caleb Colton 
Victor Hugo 
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Nigella Lawson 
Richard Brinsley Sheridan 
Robert Louis Stevenson All Vanity Quotes
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.
T. E. Lawrence 
84% of people like this quote
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Dawn Powell
65% of people like this quote
Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.
Leon Trotsky
62% of people like this quote
What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
Victor Cherbuliez
61% of people like this quote
If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
Vincent Van Gogh
60% of people like this quote
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.
Helen Hayes
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
Walter Savage Landor
59% of people like this quote
Popular Vanity Authors
Francois de La RochefoucauldFriedrich NietzscheMark TwainSamuel JohnsonVictor HugoSamuel ButlerThomas CarlyleBlaise PascalGeorge EliotGeorge SantayanaDavid Herbert LawrenceMichel de MontaigneRobert Louis StevensonNapoleon BonaparteCharles Caleb Colton
E. M. ForsterFranz KafkaThomas HuxleyMiguel De CervantesJames MadisonJonathan SwiftJean de la BruyereGustave FlaubertHelen RowlandLudwig WittgensteinJean RostandTheodore BikelRobert Bulwer-LyttonJack NicholsonJean Jacques Rousseau
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