Quotes About Vanity

It is the vanity of women to spend hours in front of the mirror. It is the vanity of men not to bother.

It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should.

This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.

The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.

What I admire most in men - To sit opposite a mirror at dinner and not look in it

For, to conceited men, all other men are admirers.

Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe.

Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.

Man only blames himself in order that he may be praised.

A man is ridiculous less through the characteristics he has than through those he affects to have.

Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.

Well, I suppose you know that men will stand a good deal when they are flattered.

The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.

I play a man who is obsessed with his own beauty, so it's perfect casting.

All the windy ways of men Are but dust that rises up, And is lightly laid again.

Most Hollywood men are too vain and shallow for me.

A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.

Eternity to a child offers goodness, and eternal life to a man is essentially corrupting because it involves a certain amount of vanity to embrace it.

Vanity is apt to inspire contempt, but that becomes immediately tempered by a gentler and more gracious feeling; for the vain man desires to win our approbation, and in this way he flatters us.

Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof.

God got the power, man has got his vanity. Man gotta choose before God can set him free.

Basically when you whittle everything away, I'm a grown man who puts on makeup.

I've been out with men who have literally had an argument with the mirror because they couldn't get their hair right. When I was younger, I might have reassured him, but I can't do that anymore.