It is just like man’s vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it’s beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth… Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

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

There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity, arrogance and pride.

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

Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There’s also the environmental argument for it.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.

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

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don’t know how to manage it.

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, ‚Is it safe?‘ Expediency asks the question, ‚Is it politic?‘ And Vanity comes along and asks the question, ‚Is it popular?‘ But Conscience asks the question, ‚Is it right?‘

What happens if you stick at something long enough, and study it for so long, you have a different kind of intelligence. It’s not an intellectual thing. It’s almost like an animal intelligence. I call it our form of instinct, almost how a lion knows exactly where its prey is.

Chimps can do all sorts of things we thought that only we could do – like tool-making and abstraction and generalisation. They can learn a language – sign language – and they can use the signs. But when you think of our intellects, even the brightest chimp looks like a very small child.

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

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

The sexiest people are thinkers. Nobody’s interested in somebody who’s just vain with a hole in their head, talking about the latest thing – there is no latest thing. It’s all rubbish.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.