Quotes About Vanity

Of all selfish bastards, a selfish bastard who likes to be liked is probably the worst. Never

guileless and without vanity,we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our own skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness.

How come it can't fly no better than a chicken?' Milkman asked. Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can't nobody fly with all that [stuff]. Wanna fly, you got to give up the [stuff] that weighs you down.' The peacock jumped onto the hood of the Buick and once more spread its tail, sending the flashy Buick into oblivion.

How come it can't fly no better than a chicken? Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, you gotta give up the shit that weighs you down.

Never seek out your own face even when well, lest the reflection drink your soul.

Six months into the bliss of edible sex, free-style music, challenging books and the company of an easy undemanding Bride, the fairy-tale castle collapsed into the mud and sand on which its vanity was built. And Booker ran away.

Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

My life has been of but little worth mostly fild [sic] up with vanity.

From where I stand...you're the same as that idol you worship. Completely hollow.

She wondered, briefly, if she was beautiful, decided she was and blew a kiss to her reflection

I was pacing through the house, brushing my hair, rubbing moisturizer on my face, clipping my toenails, all these little things to make myself presentable, and, each time, I'd look at myself again in the mirror and feel like not a single thing had changed.

We lose June. We lose July. In August we look in mirrors and want to die.

I'll admit that the idea of being adored for nothing but my face and my body has had an occasional appeal, in the way winning the lottery does. The difference is that I have a much better chance of winning the lottery.

Los dos éramos, por así decirlo, firmes partidarios del paro cardiaco como causa de muerte. El único inconveniente de una muerte tan repentina, dijo bromeando, es que uno ha de tener sus bienes bajo control en todo momento para estar seguro de no dejar ninguno de sus secretos, por no decir inclinaciones, a la posteridad. Contesté, en el mismo tono de broma, que ese era un pensamiento muy vanidoso.

I'm eighty-two, can you believe it?" She's actually ageless, given that her purple face is stretched tighter than an eggplant. "So what did you have done?" I ask, unable to help myself. "The whole package," she says. "Got my eyelids done, some Botox, a little filler, chin implant, cheekbones, got my lips done, neck lift, breast implants, tummy tuck, ass lift.

You're so vain, you probably think this song is about you.

All that work: his generous patronage of the arts, the vast sums of money he had donated to worthy causes, setting up charitable organizations . . . for what? In the end, none of those good works had redeemed him in the eyes of others. People think that men like me give money away to buy forgiveness for a sin or out of vanity, when it's the winner's pathetic tribute to the loser. Look at me, we seem to be begging, I need you too. I need you to accept me, to admire me, to love me.

Beauty is fame.

Celebrity was a long time in coming it will go away. Everything goes away.

My own collection of mascara wands, eyebrow pencils, lip, lid and blusher brushes were stored on the lavender vanity top in an antique sun-purpled Victorian glass spoon holder.

Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.

Politics is the pursuit of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

El modesto se embriaga mucho antes cuando prueba la vanidad.