Quotes About Vanity

I've typical singer's jowls, a bit fat and soggy. If I was really vain, I would have a nip and tuck, but the knife isn't an exciting prospect.

In the heady days that followed the success of 'Mahabharat,' I was young, vain and didn't care much about the story. But in the next two decades, I read a lot on the epic.

Vanity takes a lot of work. I'm too lazy to be vain.

I used to be terribly vain. I'd spend a lot of time pampering myself and applying make-up and hoping that I'd look nice.

I wouldnt describe myself as vain but I am particular about my appearance.

No matter how many times I was tempted with fame and vanity I always go back to Valley Stream, which was always about community and family.

The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.

Vanity's contribution to Fiction in general was an abundance of cheap labour and the occasional blockbuster, which was accepted into Fiction with an apologetic 'gosh, don't know how that happened'.

I hate to admit it, but governmental deviousness is usually better explained by incompetence, vanity, and the need to protect one's job at all costs.

Off the coast lies Vanity Island, and off Vanity lies Fan Fiction. Beyond Fan Fiction is School Essays and beyond that Excuses for Not Doing School Essays. The latter is often the most eloquent, constructed as it is in the white-hot heat of panic, necessity and the desire not to get a detention.

Ahora todo el mundo quiere ser siempre joven; lo entiendo, pero es un poco idiota.

The last infirmity of a noble mind»: la última flaqueza de una mente noble. Es lo que dice Milton de la vanidad. ¿Qué le parece? Hasta los mejores hombres tienen su granito de vanidad. Lo cual quiere decir que, cuanto peor es un hombre, más vanidad tiene, y que los peores, como Ferrer, son sólo vanidad.

cuanto peor es un hombre, más vanidad tiene

Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.

You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.

Each day in the mirror I watch death at work.

Fashion dies very young, so we must forgive it everything.

A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty. No, it is not possible that minds degraded by a multitude of futile concerns would ever raise themselves to anything great. Even when they had the strength for that, the courage would be missing.

Girls should learn that so much finery is only put on to hide defects, and that the triumph of beauty is to shine by itself.

She is an unpleasant woman, who seems to think of little besides herself, with few friends and no real talents.

a choker they made with a star charm hung from a black grosgrain ribbon - admiring herself in a heart-shaped Venetian mirror, wielding a golden tube of lipstick in her right hand and holding a bottle of perfume in her left.

I do not neglect myself, quite the contrary: this morning I took a bath and shaved. Only when I think back over those careful little actions, I cannot understand how I was able to make them, They are so vain. Habit, no doubt, made them for me. They aren't dead, they keep on busying themselves, gently, insidiously weaving their webs, they wash me, dry me, dress me, like nurses. Did they also lead me to this hill? I can't remember how I came anymore.

When I was little, my Aunt Bigeois told me 'If you look at yourself too long in the mirror, you'll see a monkey.' I must have looked at myself even longer than that: what I see is well below the monkey, on the fringe of the vegetable world, at the level of jellyfish.

That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.