Quotes About Vanity

The whole business is built on ego,vanity,self-satisfaction , and its total crap to pretend its not

They're both bungholes who think they're too noble to shit,

Who ever heard of a king without ears? Why, his crown would fall straight down to his neck!

If I had me a nice goose quill and a pot o' maester's ink, I could write down that me member was long and thick as me arm, wouldn't make it so.

Lady Selyse was as tall as her husband, thin of body and thin of face, with prominent ears, a sharp nose, and the faintest hint of a mustache on her upper lip. She plucked it daily and cursed it regularly, yet it never failed to return. Her eyes were pale, her mouth stern, her voice a whip. She cracked it now.

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

Oh, the vanity of plans! Our lives proceed regardless. All the things we work out in such minute detail slip away from us at the last moment, or change.

Estos unicornios son todos iguales —comentó Loro con tristeza—­, más vanidosos que un pavo. Dales un espejo, o simplemente cualquier cosa en la que puedan verse reflejados, y se quedan como hipnotizados. —Pero éste no es más que un niño —dijó Penélope—, y hay que reconocer que es realmente guapo.

For appearances. Now there's a lovely thing to die for.

Alive, ridiculous, and dead forgot?

His toupee makes him look twenty years sillier.

Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again - this is the brave and happy life.

Modesty died when false modesty was born.

All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.

He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.

Let me be dressed fine as I will, Flies, worms, and flowers, exceed me still.

Flattery is all right - if you don't inhale.

A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

Pride is seldom delicate: it will please itself with very mean advantages.

There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

Pride ruined the angels.