Quotes About Vanity

Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.

Mobile phones are the only subject on which men boast about who's got the smallest.

No physical activity is so vain as boxing. A man gets into the ring to attract admiration. In no sport, therefore, can you be more humiliated.

Though the desire of fame be the last weakness Wise men put off.

It is a great plague to be too handsome a man. [Lat., Nimia est miseria nimis pulchrum esse hominem.]

Most men when they make up their faces, the makeup stands forward, and their faces are behind.

It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.

Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on vanities of man's devising.

I'm a very, very handsome man, and have had to come to terms with it... um, do I like the way I look? In the right light, and with a following wind.

When men will not be reasoned out of a vanity, they must be ridiculed out of it.

I guess anyone with a beautiful body, man or woman, loves to be looked at, but to admit such a thing is a little rough at times. That's why it's hard to get people to pose.

A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing.

Even dress is apt to inflame a man's opinion of himself.

I've always been a proud man.

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils.

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. [Fr., Les hommes rougissent moins de leur crimes que de leurs faiblesses et de leur vanite.]

A coxcomb is the blockhead's man of merit.

A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.

Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession.

Only men of considerable vanity write books; consistently therewith, I worried lest the world were exchanging an irreplaceable author for a more easily purchased diplomat.

Every man praises his own wares.

Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up his dignity.

Hey, Ill be a pretty boy for money.

Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria.