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Letter "V" » Vanity
"If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself – ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanity – before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly."
Author: Eugene O'Neill
About: Vanity
"Never "just run out for a few minutes" without looking your best. This is not vanity – it's self-liking. Your face is always on display."
Author: Estee Lauder
About: Vanity
"I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress."
Author: Jane Austen
About: Vanity
"When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial."
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
About: Vanity
"No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself."
Author: Anthony Trollope
About: Vanity
"Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return."
Author: George Eliot
About: Vanity
"There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth."
Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
About: Vanity
"To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself."
Author: Max Beerbohm
About: Vanity
"If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by "vanity" only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing."
Author: Yousef Karsh
About: Vanity
"Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory."
Author: Joseph Conrad
About: Vanity
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