Quotes About Vanity

Don't trust a mirror that only tells you how wonderful you look.

Every man is sensitive. Some cover it up with brutality, others with cowardice and vanity, but a small few wear it bravely like armor

I am not sure about facelifts because I wouldn't want to be someone who just looks like she's had a facelift.

I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.

23Pride ends in humiliation,         while humility brings honor.

He was vain and tended to surround himself with intellectual and moral pygmies.

Sometimes I stare into a pool of piss, I see my reflection, I picture a hole in my face, there's nothing there, it's vanished. I watch the maggots turn to flies, and they fly off with bits of flesh from my body. I attempt to wipe it clear from my mind, but the nice thoughts get swallowed up. I can't think nice for too long…it would destroy me.

Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious to be accepted for what they altimately are as revealed in their poetry.

Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the most sympathetically portrayed character in his book will be an alcoholic. This sort of thing is very boring for outsiders.

Dictators never accepted failure. They preferred to have their mistakes forgotten, overshadowed with spectacle.

Arrogance and stupidity is a deadly combination.

With ever greater frequency they annihilate themselves, for success breeds contempt for those very qualities that purchased it.

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.

One thing that I really like to do is, I'll look in the mirror, and I'll imagine that I'm rapidly aging, until I'm just a skull.

Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

I think maybe Mr. Sinise and Mr. Bacon have slightly bigger egos than I do.

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

When I hear theists and atheists pontificating on how they know God does or does not exist, I can only smile at the irrationality and, yes, vanity of the notion.

When I look at my face, I notice terrible smoker's lines above my lip and nasty sun damage in the middle of my cheeks.

I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.

Looking back, I can't say I got any real satisfaction from so many people being interested in what I looked like.

You read about poor people having Botox go wrong and you think: 'Well, what the bloody hell were you doing?' Why would you inject yourself with poison? And why are we spending so much time looking at ourselves? I just don't get it.

Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment.

Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgement on him. -from By diverse means we arrive at the same end