Quotes About Vanity

Mom had gotten herself so gorgeous she nearly broke the mirror

The first impression one gets of Michael Deane is of a man constructed of wax, or perhaps prematurely embalmed. After all these years, it may be impossible to trace the sequence of facials, spa treatments, mud baths, cosmetic procedures, lifts and staples, collagen implants, outpatient touch-ups, tannings, Botox injections, cyst and growth removals, and stem-cell injections that have caused a seventy-two-year-old man to have the face of a nine-year-old Filipino girl.

If I stop to think about fans, or bestselling, or not bestselling, or good reviews, or not-good reviews, it just becomes too much. It's like staring at the mirror all day.

After I look at her I look at myself in the mirror, and yet again I resign myself to the fact that my face has always disappointed me. Every look in the mirror dismays me, that's the reason I tend to avoid them.

Women, more often than not, do things which aren't remotely relaxing but are all about preening, which is just another sort of work.

Occasionally I like to have facials but I do think they rub too much stuff on your face. I don't really like having my hair and makeup done because it's a work thing.

Be careful, perfection can make persons and work pass out of sight.

I do wear makeup when I work out. I am one of those people. It sounds stupid, but I can't really get motivated if I don't have a mirror and I'm not staring at myself because I need to look at myself.

I do take a lot of pride in my look and I work out - do work out a lot.

In luck or out the toil has left its mark: That old perplexity an empty purse, Or the day's vanity, the night's remorse.

I look stupid without a mustache.

Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.

Beauty fades, stupid is forever.

To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.

Pride makes us esteem ourselves; vanity desires the esteem of others.

Blogging Is Pure Vanity

Only when you die will you cease to feel ridiculous.

Quien tiene el verdadero poder no necesita joyas ni trajes fastuosos para demostrarlo. Quien siente esta necesidad admite su propia debilidad

People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.

After the dead words, after the ones still said and spoken, what do you expect? Some flying leaves, more scattered papers. Who knows? Some dissolving words, like the light or the echo dying out there in the great night.

I learned early on, having known the most handsome, successful, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, don't ever spend too much time looking in the mirror.

I spent seven hours in a beauty shop... and that was for the estimate.

What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?

Beauty is but skin deep, ugly to the bone. And when beauty fades away, ugly claims its own.