Quotes About Vanity

Egotism and vanity. These qualities serve as red lights which warn others to keep away. They are fatal to success.

I believe in humility...Also, I believe in pride, knowing well that the deadliest of the seven deadly sins is named as pride. I believe in a pride that prays ever for an awareness of that borderline where, unless watchful of yourself, you cross over into arrogance, into vanity, into mirror gazing, into misuse and violation of the sacred portions of your personality.

Tell me what you boast of and I´ll tell you what you lack!

Every self-respecting act of persuasion must find appeal to curiosity, then to vanity, and lastly to kindness or remorse. Isabella looked down and slowly nodded.

Never underestimate a writer's vanity, especially that of a mediocre writer. (The Angel's Game)

A la hora de mentir lo que hay que tener en cuenta no es la plausibilidad del embuste, sino la codicia, vanidad y estupidez del destinatario. Uno nunca miente a la gente; se mienten a ellos mismos. Un buen mentiroso les da a los bobos lo que quieren oír. Ese es el secreto. —Eso

Every self-respecting persuasive ploy must first appeal to curiosity, then to vanity, and lastly to kindness or remorse.

Vanitas peccata mundi.

A la hora de mentir lo que hay que tener en cuenta no es la plausibilidad del embuste, sino la codicia, vanidad y estupidez del destinatario.

His eyes gave off an air of bravado and arrogance, of disdain and sugary politeness. Julián smiled at him openly, reading insecurity, fear, and emptiness under that shell of vanity and complacency.

Accursed be those whose dreams are made of paper and ink, for theirs will be the purgatory of vanity and disappointment.

Boiled down, isn't love just a form of vanity? You know, the wish to be adored. To be the absolute center for someone else.

If it had been a fairy tale, and one twin had said, Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who Is the Fairest of Them All? the mirror could have made no answer. For two qualified.

She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other.

Fancy feathers make peacocks, but you pluck them and see what's left.

As far as I could tell, Claude's benefit to the world was strictly as a decoration. -Sookie

When I'm 80 and sagging all over, I can tell my grandkids, 'Look, when I was a lad, 'People' magazine thought I was sexy!'

People write memoirs - this is my take, anyway - out of a great sense of self-importance.

In Vanity Fair, everyone messes up.

I've dyed my hair a million times and it looks terrible, always. It just looks fake. And it doesn't make me look that much younger.

We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there's no other motive except the even baser one of making money....

Cu to?ii suferim de megalomanie,ca s? nu trebuiasc? s? pl?tim ve?nica noastr? sibmediocritate.

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.

Dazzled by brass and scarlet - O, Bathsheba - this is a woman's folly indeed!