Quotes About Vanity

For what would it profit us to know the whole Bible by heart and the principles of all the philosophers if we live without grace and the love of God? Vanity of vanities and all is vanity, except to love God and serve Him alone.

It is vanity to wish for a long life and to care little about a well-spent life.

Vanidad es desear larga vida y no cuidar que sea buena.

Everyone has a bookplate these days, and the collectors are after it. The fool and his bookplate are soon parted. To distribute one's ex libris is inanely to destroy the only significance it has, that of indicating the past or present ownership of the volume in which it is placed.

A Dandy is a clothes-wearing Man, a Man whose trade, office and existence consists in the wearing of clothes.

All glories of flesh vanish, and this, the glory of infantine beauty seen in the mirror of memory, soonest of all.

I think when you do comedy, you play by a different set of rules. No one really wants you to be in that good shape. Being in good shape implies a level of vanity that isn't necessarily funny.

People will take a picture of themselves and start looking at themselves and decide their neck looks weird. They see a celebrity selfie and wonder how she looks so good, and why her lips look so big.

I cannot pull off a mustache. It's like threading a needle, because most of the time, I'll look like a complete idiot.

The funny thing is, I look at these magazines that make me so insecure and neurotic, but I'm in them!

I'll never give up my Dior mascara.

I just cash in on the fact that I'm good looking, and I've got a nice figure and girls like me.

The actor in me would always like to be more dashing, or slimmer, or have nicer hair.

I do sleep next to my makeup because I don't want any makeup nightmares.

I have no desire to look at myself.

The whole vanity aspect of building up different muscles - I have no interest.

I can't believe I told you all those things and we've ended up talking about how great I am.' 'But we're not. You've confused the two things again. You're not great. You're a shallow, feckless, self-indulgent... wanker.' 'Thanks.

I was considered attractive in those days, some people even called me beautiful, though my skin was never good and it was this that I noticed when I looked in the mirror

But how can anyone put a bridle on man's vanity and arrogance? But how can Purity walk the earth without covering her feet with mud?

Lots of people have been afraid of the vanity of things! I´ve overcome it. Lots reflect hard; I have no need to reflect. I don´t rejoice over the good and don´t despair over the bad. If I hear that the Greeks have taken Constantinople, it´s just the same to me as if the Turks were taking Athens.

checked out the mirror to see if I looked older, or sadder, or wiser. I didn't; I just looked tired.

According to my dermatologist, the neck starts to go at forty-three, and that's that...The neck is a dead give-away. Our faces are lies and our necks are the truth. You have to cut open a redwood tree to see how old it is, but you wouldn't have to if it had a neck.

There's a reason why forty, fifty, and sixty don't look the way they used to, and it's not because of feminism, or better living through exercise. It's because of hair dye.

Why do people always have to have new hair? If you didn't like the old hair, why did you have the old hair? Then you won't like the new hair, and you'll have to have new new hair.