Quotes About Vanity

Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift-fleeing meteor, a fast flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, Man passes from life to his rest in the grave.

While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you will be nothing.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last; and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another.

The fool shouts loudly, thinking to impress the world.

God hates those who praise themselves.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people cruel and bitter.

Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches.

Oh, how quickly the world's glory passes away.

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.

When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high.

This world's a bubble.

The pomps and vanity of this wicked world.

I don't think we're fit for visual consumption. Adrian reached up and cranked the rearview mirror his way. Whatever, I'm gorgeous...wow. I... Look like shit.

El ego, después de todo, era la raíz de todo mal.

We are nothing. - Tomorrow we may be die. We are nothing. - You and me.

I clearly saw the skeleton underneath all this show of personality what is left of a man and all his pride but bones?

Vanity of vanities… all is vanity.' You kill yourself to get to the grave. Especially you kill yourself to get to the grave before you die; and the name of the grave is 'success', the name of that grave is hullabullo boom boom horseshit.

Los huesos humanos no son más que vanas líneas que se desvanecen, el universo entero un vacío molde de estrellas.

Hollywood is a place where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle.

The movie business is very twisted, out of site, out of mind, you know.

The trouble with the artists this year is they are all obsessed with Twitter and headlines. It feels like they are all getting a bit above themselves.

The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.

One of the beautiful things about Tyler Durden in 'Fight Club' is that he seems to understand the implicit vanity and self-absorption that comes with the desire to improve oneself.