Vainity Quotes

“We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.”
― Rex Stout, The Rubber Band

“I am smiling a big adopted-orphan smile as I write this ... I still love scribbling the word - WRITER - any time on a form, questionnaire, document asks for my occupation. Fine, I write personality quizzes, I don't write about the Great Issues of the Day, but I think it's fair to say I am a writer ... ('Adopted-orphan smile', I mean, that's not bad, come on.)”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“There is nothing more disgraceful than a vain man."

"Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.”
― Devin Madson, The Blood of Whisperers

“She was still glad she looked like Scully. He wasn't pretty either, but pretty people weren't the kind you need. Pretty people saw themselves in the mirror and were either too happy or too sad. People like Billie just shrugged and didn't care. She didn't want to turn into anyone pretty. Anyway, she had scars now, you only had to look.”
― Tim Winton, The Riders

“FIGARO. I was poor and people looked down on me. I showed some brains and people hated me. Now, with a pretty wife and money…
BARTHOLO [laughing]. People will rush to be your friend.
FIGARO. They will?
BARTHOLO. I know them.”
― Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, The Barber of Seville / The Marriage of Figaro / The Guilty Mother