Quotes About Vanity

Is there anything more vain than an autobiography?

Después de los cincuenta, la vanidad sólo sirve para sufrir»

I work out because that's my job, but what I enjoy about it, beyond the vanity, is the Zen of it. I like getting out of my head, and one great way to do that is to sweat your face off. And to know that, if you're thinking of anything else, you're not working intensely enough.

When I was racing, I had learned that you can't set stock in public adoration or your press clippings. By the time I was 26, I'd heard crowds of 100,000 scream my name, but a week later they couldn't remember who I was. You're a hero today and a bum tomorrow - hero to zero, I sometimes say.

A walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.

An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him ain't listening.

Not to go to the theatre is like making one's toilet without a mirror.

Actor-manager - one to whom the part is greater than the whole.

A man's vanity tells him what is honour; a man's conscience what is justice.

You never say a word of yourself, dear Lady Grey. You have that dreadful sin of anti-egotism.

That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments.

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

Do you wish men to speak well of you? Then never speak well of yourself.

The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: The one thinks everything right that is French, the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.

Fashion condemns us to many follies; the greatest is to make oneself its slave.

A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself.

A fly sat on the chariot wheel And said "What a dust I raise."

There are bearded fools.

A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him.

He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.

The tulip is, among flowers, what the peacock is among birds. A tulip lacks scent, a peacock has an unpleasant voice. The one takes pride in its garb, the other in its tail.

If deeds are wanting, all words appear mere vanity and emptiness.

The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth.