Quotes About Vanity

Oh, it was a trap — not designed but deep — to my imagination, to my delicacy, perhaps to my vanity; to whatever in me was most excitable.

The vanity of women had long memories, but she was making no claim on him of a compliment or a mistake.

Bedizened in this unnatural garb Rosalind stood before the mirror, plunging a long look into its depths and reading heaven knows what audacious visions.

He would rather seem stupid any day than fatuous

Did he live in a false world, a world that had grown simply to suit him, and was his present slight irritation—in the face now of Jim's silence in particular—but the alarm of the vain thing menaced by the touch of the real?

When your appeal depends on an image, you have nothing to fall back on when the image is gone.

That mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true — not true, or undeveloped. With books the same. The truest of all men was the Man of Sorrows, and the truest of all books is Solomon's, and Ecclesiastes is the fine hammered steel of woe. "All is vanity." ALL. This wilful world hath not got hold of unchristian Solomon's wisdom yet.

So have I seen Passion and Vanity stamping the living magnanimous earth, but the earth did not alter her tides and her seasons for that.

In truth, a mature man who uses hair-oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere.

In truth, a mature man who uses hairoil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere. As a general rule, he can't amount to much in his totality.

I hate having my picture taken. Ten years ago, I stopped having a good side.

For me, nothing brings out my 'born yesterday' idiotic qualities quite like having my photograph taken.

Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse.

A lot of young actors will do a scene and then run off and look at themselves. I don't believe in that at all.

I don't want to be one of those young actors who is around for a couple of years and melts off the scene.

The fact is, for years, I had been trapped in a certain narcissism and a desire to have a certain body and look sexy.

My most treasured item is the brown leather bag that my mum bought me from a little Italian shop for my 21st. It's supposed to be a vanity bag, but I use it as a handbag.

I treat clothing or a piece of jewelry like it was a piece of art, even though people who collect clothes get a bad rap because they're told it's all vanity.

I know there's Botox and all these skin-firming treatments, but I'm afraid they'll make me look weird.

I have always liked to get my pictures taken, and I like taking care of my looks. But, I am not one to use beauty products and treatments.

We did a 'Vanity Fair' spread for 'The Hunger Games,' and we were on set, and I saw a little head pop up from the tree. There were three teenage girls who snuck past security and made it into the forest.

My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town.

There was a stage in my career when I started to have problems with the vanity aspect of the subject. I got frustrated and bored with it. Then I thought, actually, how does it feel to be photographed? That's when I started to photograph myself. That was an incredibly important moment, and it opened up my work tremendously.

I'd rather be shot than be seen falling out of some trendy club.