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Quotes About Vanity

Women ought not to know their own wit, because they will still be showing it, and so spoil it.
~ John Selden
Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics.
~ Lord Chesterfield
Dear, dead women, with such hair, too--what's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms?
~ Robert Browning
Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.
~ Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
Unvisited tombstones, unread diaries, and erased video game high-score rankings are three of the most potent symbols of mankind's pathetic and fruitless attempts at immortality.
~ Sarah Silverman
No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.
~ Walter Raleigh
Dear to the heart of a girl is her own beauty and charm.
~ Ovid
Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Then there will come a time where, very quickly, a woman will lose what some call her beauty.
~ Frederick Lenz
I grew up in a makeup chair, to see! the women around me getting ready was so aspirational, It is about mothers and daughters, a girl watching her mom at a vanity table.
~ Drew Barrymore
The courage of a great many men, and the virtue of a great many women, are the effect of vanity, shame, and especially a suitabletemperament.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
One of these days you're going to wake up," William finally said, "and I will have shaved you, Everywhere." (Paris) "Won't make a difference. Women will still want me.
~ Gena Showalter
The more women looke in their glasse, the lesse they looke to their house. [The more women look in their glass, the less they look to their house.]
~ George Herbert
All is vanity and everybody's vain. Women are terribly vain. So are men - more so, if possible.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
When women smoke, it is hard for them to quit because they are so worried about their weight; it's a vanity issue and a mindset.
~ Loni Anderson
Women's beauty, like men's wit, is generally fatal to the owners.
~ Lord Chesterfield
Women have, in general, but ne object, which is their beauty; upon which, scarce any flattery is too gross for them to swallow.
~ Lord Chesterfield
Sometimes women are so great and powerful, but then they surrender to these vain things. They kind of fall for it.
~ Lykke Li
I find that men are far more vain than women.
~ Patricia Arquette
I don't mind women who want to act. That's fine. It's odd that men want to act, in that there's still a degree of vanity associated with it.
~ Shane Black
I have a healthy sense of vanity. I like to look good for myself, which is what a lot of women say. I want to stay fit.
~ Thomas Haden Church
Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud; but, God He knows, thy share thereof is small.
~ William Shakespeare
Women that can work a camera with ease often work men just as effortlessly for both require the same commitment to vanity and manipulation.
~ Tiffany Madison
Pretty women with no soul like paintings on the wall
~ Sami Abouzid