Quotes About Vanity

La preoccupazione per la propria immagine, è questa la fatale immaturità dell'uomo. È così difficile essere indifferenti alla propria immagine. Una tale indifferenza è al di sopra delle forze umane. L'uomo ci arriva solo dopo la morte. E neanche subito. Solo molto tempo dopo la morte.

Os velhos senhores reconhecem-se pelo hábito que têm de se gabar dos sofrimentos passados e de os transformarem num museu para o qual convidam visitantes (ah, esses tristes museus são tão pouco frequentados!)

Y ¿cómo podría ser sincera una chica que irradia tanta juventud como usted? No puede ser sincera, porque ni siquiera sabe lo que lleva dentro. Pero, si lo supiese, debería coincidir conmigo en que el mayor placer es el de ser admirado. ¿No le parece?

To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.

I'm before him on my knees, and he kisses me He assumes I lose my reason and I do. Men are stupid, men are vain, Love's disgusting, love's insane, A humiliating business-oh how true.

A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.

Love, to her ear, was but a name, Combin'd with vanity and shame; Her hopes, her fears, her joys, were all Bounded within the cloister wall.

Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd.

Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.

The love of dress is very marked in this attractive animal.

Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned.

Vanity is man's love affair with himself.

He was too gorgeous for words and worst yet he knew it.

You and I, Mina dear, who are engaged and are going to settle down soon soberly into old married women, can despise vanity.

These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves away! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow. Oh, if men only knew! For

Some girls are so vain! You and I, Mina dear, who are engaged and are going to settle down soon soberly into old married women, can despise vanity. Well

Some girls are so vain!

Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.

I've been accused of being very vain about my apathy.

Bret Easton Ellis

All it comes down to is: I feel like shit but look great.

She's simply another girl who has gotten by on her looks—her currency in this world—and it will not be fun to watch her grow old.

Never trust a man who spends too much time on his hair.

Let us think often that our only business in this life is to please God. Perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity.