Quotes About Vanity

All is vanity, all falsehood, except that infinite sky. There is nothing, nothing, but that.

It's a bad sort of young lady who's only alive when she's being admired, and as soon as she's alone lets herself go altogether and finds no charm in anything - who's all for show, and nothing for herself.

Not as we ran, shouting and fighting, not at all as the gunner and the Frenchman with frightened and angry faces struggled for the mop: how differently do those clouds glide across that lofty infinite sky! How was it I did not see that lofty sky before? And how happy I am to have found it at last! Yes! All is vanity, all falsehood, except that infinite sky. There is nothing, nothing, but that. But even it does not exist, there is nothing but quiet and peace. Thank God!

Stavrovicha, is a selfish, vain, and unattractive creature who deserts her husband in favour of a young officer, Balashev. Her elderly, betrayed

El dinero, los honores ganados a fuerza de envilecerse, la pugna por conseguir una felicidad terrenal, que se desvanece entre sus dedos y que se escapa para siempre, hacen que el rebaño humano se convierta en horda pululante, que se agita y corre hacia aquí y hacia allá, tropezando y destrozándose, en busca de una liberación que nunca se encuentra

Pride is a fool's fortress

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.

It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.

Nature wants to propogate our race. What else would it want. We, however, are vain and gullible enough to convince ourselves that it has our happiness in mind.

Humans are so foolish--we measure ourselves by our residue.

Nothing is too unreasonable nor too unkind for selfishness, acted upon by vanity.

The attention of a superior is too flattering to our vanity not to call it forth.

Vanity is the real lever with which Archimedes said he could move the earth;

Ce-a cautat la mine?Nu atat dragoste, cat satisfactia vanitatii lui.

Yes! All is vanity, all falsehood, except that infinite sky. There is nothing, nothing but that. But even it does not exist, there is nothing but quiet and peace. Thank God!...

If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating itself. That's why I believe there should be a psychiatrist at every health club, so that when they see you doing this, they will take you away for a little chat.

If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating itself. That's why I believe there should be a psychiatrist at every health club, so that when they see you doing this, they will take you away for a little chat.

If you strip a lot of performers to the core, you find that urge to show off.

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.

Every actor has an obsession with their hair. You can see it on set, and you start to realize it's completely silly. I can be very obsessed by my hair, but all these hours spent trying to style it are useless, because ultimately, you can't change your haircut. It's all the same.

Is there something psychologically wrong with David Gregory? No, besides the usual superhuman vanity of a television professional. He is just not a great host of a news talk show!

In any given project, there are a few moments where there is the usual disappointment, as it were, when you look in the mirror, and you realize you're not 23 and looking like Brad Pitt.

People don't do theology in a vacuum but in a community with other theological thinkers, where there's jealousy, vanity, hurt pride, all those things.