Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?

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).

I was really excited to get to shave my head - it's something I'd wanted to do for a while and now I had a good excuse. It was nice to shed that level of vanity.

Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very, very blurred.

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.

Vanity is but the surface.

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

Vanity is my favourite sin.

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.

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

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

I have a lot of vanity.

I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity.

A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a rougue to retire upon.