Quotes About Vanity

Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.

As long as I have enough money for makeup artists, everything is okay. I feel young and very free. But one day, my face will be too old for the camera.

Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.

We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there's no other motive except the even baser one of making money.

Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment.

Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.

Is not wounded vanity the mother of all tragedies?

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

Humility is the only defence against vanity

I think the industry is oblivious to the fact that most people listen to all kinds of stuff. I personally don't know of anyone who listens to only one genre of music. It's vanity because no one does.

You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by hearing the master pieces which have been produced at different periods.

Music, when turned to a good account, is a blessing. When abused, it leads the unconsecrated to pride, vanity, and folly, and becomes one of Satan 's most attractive agencies to ensnare souls.

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.

The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.

If fame goes by, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst.

Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.

Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man's own making.

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.

I can't think of one person who is on TV who isn't vain. It's the nature of the beast. If you are on TV then you have a vanity, for sure. Just admit it! Why not?

Humanity has many shortcomings, but none is stronger than pride.

Beauty is wasted on the self-absorbed.

and, indeed, nature has so made us, that we all love to be flattered and to please ourselves with our own notions