Quotes About Vanity

The wise man profits by the vanity of his fellow-creatures.

Ah, now I have learned how deep in the human heart vanity lies, vanity which is the other face of the fear of being unloved.

in all of human history, three things never went out of style. Graffiti, keep-out signs, and statues of ourselves.

V is for vanity, every time I look at me I turn myself on, yeah

Yes, Evangeline loathed this place, but she loathed more the vanity and naivete and willful ignorance that had landed her here.

She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.

ridiculous if not positively touched, filthy and mean-spirited to be so poor, vain to have airs and graces when so poor, superstitious to hold any religious beliefs, thickheaded to hold any political beliefs, hoity-toity to hold any esthetic beliefs, fustian to pretend to any education, when so poor.

MARGARET Do I seem composed, sufficiently placid and unmotherly? ALIZON Altogether, except that your earring Trembles a little. MARGARET It's always our touches of vanity That manage to betray us.

I always say beauty is only sin deep.

I cry because I don't have the upper-arm strength to flatiron my hair. I

I scroll through iPhone photos and see that if I delete pictures of myself with a double chin, I will erase all proof of my glorious life.

There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed-the four-poster-I'll be needing that to die in.

There was . . . a mirror that crawled across the wall in a wooden frame. When I go into Miri's room all I can see, all I can think of is that enormous mirror, like a lake on the wall.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.

A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

The love we have for our native land would be good and praiseworthy if it did not degenerate, as we see it does everywhere, into vanity, the spirit of predominance, acquisitiveness, hate, envy, nationalism, and militarism

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.

Ce n'était pas qu'elle ne fût contente de plaire, mais ce contentement n'était pas suffisant pour qu'elle se donnât beaucoup de peine en vue de l'obtenir; quand elle s'était passé un doigt mouillé sur les sourcils, et la langue sur les lèvres, elle avait beaucoup fait.

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

Affectation proceeds from one of these two causes,--vanity or hypocrisy; for as vanity puts us on affecting false characters, in order to purchase applause; so hypocrisy sets us on an endeavor to avoid censure, by concealing our vices under an appearance of their opposite virtues

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

It is telling that in the Dictionary he offers under 'bristly' this heavily edited quotation from the brilliant but erratic classicist Richard Bentley: 'If the eye were so acute as to rival the finest microscope, the sight of our own selves would affright us; the smoothest skin would be beset with rugged scales and bristly hairs.