Quotes About Vanity

Natural beauty takes at least two hours in front of a mirror.

All I have going is my looks. When my beauty goes, I'm through.

No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes

Beauty lasts five minutes. Maybe longer if you have a good plastic surgeon.

Never once does Snow White herself look in the mirror so she isn't aware of her beauty or what apparently that does to people. It's really just the queen and the prince that talk about it.

We're constantly taking pictures of ourselves. It's a bit scary, because images are essentially dead, so we judge beauty on something that isn't alive.

Over fertilized plants may be beautiful but are otherwise useless, like people whose energies are devoted so completely to their appearance that there is no other development.

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

Female beauties are as fickle in their faces as in their minds; though casualties should spare them, age brings in a necessity of decay.

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

I thought that beauty alone would satisfy, but the soul is gone. I can't bear those empty, staring eyes.

Like beauty, stardom too is skin-deep.

Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.

[On vanity:] The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the face of the earth would have changed.

I am used to being beautiful. I have been beautiful for so long that it is an essential part of me. I would not be the same spiritually if I had not been beautiful.

I never saw myself as Mr. Ugly, but I'm not that handsome. I can sort of be made to look quite a lot better or quite a lot worse.

She felt so much aware of her own beauty it seemed inconceivable that everybody else wouldn't notice the difference too.

That is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realizing that it is simply a pretty cover for the bones.

Pride is innate in beauty, and haughtiness is the companion of the fair.

Dear to girls' hearts is their own beauty.

Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable - should persist after the beauty is gone.

it has been long and justly remarked, that folly has ever sought alliance with beauty.

Nothing is more ridiculous in old people that were once good-looking, than to forget that they are not so still.

I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.