Quotes About Vanity

The sexiest people are thinkers. Nobody's interested in somebody who's just vain with a hole in their head, talking about the latest thing - there is no latest thing. It's all rubbish.

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

Whatever you do for the sole purpose of having others admire you, your efforts will most likely be in vain.

He who is vain and delights in his own ability is deceived by his inferiors. When he likes to bring forth arguments and kindliness, his inferiors take advantage of his abilities.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false world is but transitory.

Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.

This is a very superficial job. I sit in a chair for two hours and get hair and makeup done and talk about myself in interviews. That's a very vain thing to do. And I do get caught up in it sometimes.

I don't think anyone gets bored of being called good-looking. We are all vain in one way or another.

I'm too short-sighted, too squeamish for contact lenses and too vain for glasses.

I have been vain since birth.

I'm as vain as the next guy. I have a facade on right now. But you can't see it, because it's reality-based.

I'm not vain, I'm insecure.

I may be a vain person, but I'm not a vain performer.

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.

Fear of death and idolatry of youth have prompted vain neurotics to spend ever-greater fortunes on cosmetic products and surgeries to stave off age just a little while longer.

I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.

I don't think I'm vain... but I do like to be lit well.

I have my insecurities, and some days you don't want to be photographed. You notice all of your flaws even if others don't notice them. Photo shoots also feel very vain because it's all about you and your looks and your face. I feel I work better on camera.

Sam Duvet is like me but turned up: more vain and dumber.

I'm so vain, all I could think was I should have stopped at 'American Pie.'

Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that.

As a person I'm perfectly vain, I'm just vainer as an actor about my ability. My acting vanity trumps my human vanity.