Quotes About Vanity

I'm the star of the show. I should have a decent haircut.

I'd love to be a movie star. That'd be great. But I lost the looks awhile ago. They slipped right through my hands like sand in an hourglass.

When stardom gets on your head, you don't even realise.

It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.

If I stop to think about fans, or best-selling, or not best-selling, or good reviews, or not-good reviews, it just becomes too much. It's like staring at the mirror all day.

And what voices! A sort of over-fedness, a fatuous self-confidence, a constant bah-bahing of laughter about nothing, above all a sort of heaviness & richness combined with a fundamental ill-will—people who, one instinctively feels, without even being able to see them, are the enemies of anything intelligent or sensitive or beautiful.

A hypocrite is in himself both the archer and the mark, in all actions shooting at his own praise or profit.

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

Can storied urn, or animated bustBack to its mansion call the fleeting breath?Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust,Or flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of death?

What good does it do to speak learnedly about the Trinity if, lacking humility, you displease the Trinity? Indeed it is not learning that makes a man holy and just, but a virtuous life makes him pleasing to God. I would rather feel contrition than know how to define it. 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.

People get the biggest kick out of seeing the features of their faces plastered onto one head.

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real

Like Dead Sea fruits, that tempt the eye,But turn to ashes on the lips.

Beauty is but a flower,Which wrinkles will devourBrightness falls from the airQueens have died young and fairDust hath closed Helen's eye.I am sick, I must dieLord have mercy on us.

It was needless, after this, to say that all was vanity and vexation of spirit; for it is impossible to derive happiness from the company of those whom we deprive of happiness.

Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the age and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies.

Every quiet method for peace hath been ineffectual. Our prayers have been rejected with disdain; and only tended to convince us, that nothing flatters vanity, or confirms obstinacy in Kings more than repeated petitioning—and noting hath contributed more than that very measure to make the Kings of Europe absolute

nothing flatters vanity, or confirms obstinacy in Kings more than repeated petitioning

Her mirror was her only intimate, and she wanted its reflection to be the single most important statement she cared to make.

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

Vanity and prejudice have as usual played havoc with the truth, and Mr. Topper's reputation has been tossed into a furnace of frantically wagging tongues. The

Beauty lasts five minutes. Maybe longer if you have a good plastic surgeon.

Nobody really knows what they look like. The mirror shows you only what you want to see.

The bad part about growing older is I'm going bald. The good part is my nose seems to be getting shorter.