Top 36 Quotes About Women's Vanity
#1. If I really seem vain, it is that I am only vain in my ways - not in my heart. The worst women are those vain in their hearts, and not in their ways.
Thomas Hardy
#2. The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.
Patricia Meyer Spacks
#3. 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.
Jane Austen
#4. For let us women be never so ill-favored, I imagine that we are always delighted to hear ourselves called handsome.
Miguel De Cervantes
#6. It is well known that women outlive men; could it merely be superior vanity that keeps them going?
Truman Capote
#7. Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.
Margaret Atwood
#8. A girl's coquetry is of the simplest, she thinks that all is said when the veil is laid aside; a woman's coquetry is endless, she shrouds herself in veil after veil, she satisfies every demand of man's vanity, the novice responds but to one.
Honore De Balzac
#9. I don't mind women who want to act. That's fine. It's odd that men want to act, in that there's still a degree of vanity associated with it.
Shane Black
#10. The courage of a great many men, and the virtue of a great many women, are the effect of vanity, shame, and especially a suitabletemperament.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#11. With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins.
Mignon McLaughlin
#12. It is the vanity of women to spend hours in front of the mirror. It is the vanity of men not to bother.
Simon Munnery
#13. I have a healthy sense of vanity. I like to look good for myself, which is what a lot of women say. I want to stay fit.
Thomas Haden Church
#14. What's so great about working with really funny women is that vanity comes second. Whatever makes it real and funny, they're going to go for, and it's just great.
Paul Feig
#15. Women may be vain, but when a man is vain, it is beyond believing, for a man is willing to die for his vanity.
Susan Sontag
#16. I grew up in a makeup chair. And to see the women around me getting ready was so aspirational. It's about mothers and daughters, a girl watching her mom at a vanity table.
Drew Barrymore
#18. Those Women who boast the Affections of their Admirers, have a greater share of Vanity than Love ...
Eliza Haywood
#19. Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics.
Lord Chesterfield
#20. When women smoke, it is hard for them to quit because they are so worried about their weight; it's a vanity issue and a mindset.
Loni Anderson
#21. You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.
Ambrose Bierce
#22. Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#23. I doubt if there ever was a man who was not gratified by being told that he was liked by the women.
Samuel Johnson
#24. Here one has the perfect example of justice: the men have kept their women enslaved ... stupid and limited and apart, for their male vanity and power; result: the dull women bore the daylights out of the men.
Martha Gellhorn
#25. All is vanity and everybody's vain. Women are terribly vain. So are men - more so, if possible.
Jerome K. Jerome
#27. Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,
a long way leading nowhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#28. I've loved many women ... I'm not going to lie to you, but it never works ... vanity always gets in the way.
Cassandra Giovanni
#29. Some women just skip having babies or adopt because they don't want to get fat or they haven't put in the time to find a partner. It's great to adopt, but a lot of adoptions are motivated by vanity and laziness.
Jaime Pressly
#30. But a man's beauty represents inner, functional truths: his face shows what he can do. And what is that compared to the magnificent uselessness of a woman's face? Mersault was aware of this now, delighting in his vanity and smiling at his secret demons.
Albert Camus
#31. Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.
Alfred De Musset
#32. It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am.
Elle Macpherson
#33. Hairspray and blusher, eyelash curlers, eye-shadow palettes the size of tea-trays. Even before they left school it was as if they were already rehearsing for some witless kind of womanhood.
Alison Fell
#34. It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does.
And men take care that they should.
Jane Austen
#35. Women that can work a camera with ease often work men just as effortlessly for both require the same commitment to vanity and manipulation.
Tiffany Madison
#36. I once laughed at the vanity of women of thirty or forty who whitened their ruddy old skin with lead, but now I know such salves are not disguises for old crones who wish to catch a young husband. Instead they are only a mask we wear so that we can, for a little while, still recognize ourselves.
Rebecca Johns
