Quotes About Vanity

Giving advice to the fool is like sowing water in the ocean.

The fool doesn't think anything well done except what he did or what he is doing.

The reward of the fool is that they make you feel as if you were God.

Those who are trying to impress others must puff themselves up.

Je t'ai envoyé aujourd'hui mon portrait à moi; il faut le regarder pendant quelque temps, tu verras, j'espère que ma physionomie s'est bien calmée, quoique le regard soit vague davantage qu'auparavant, à ce qui me parait.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

Trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives... by make-believe.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous -- on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. It is failure that makes people bitter and cruel.

If I make the lashes dark And the eyes more bright And the lips more scarlet, Or ask if all be right From mirror after mirror, No vanity's displayed: I'm looking for the face I had Before the world was made.

Before The World Was Made If I make the lashes dark and the eyes more bright and the lips more scarlet, or ask if all be right from mirror after mirror, no vanity's displayed: I'm looking for the face I had before the world was made. What if I look upon a man as though on my beloved, and my blood be cold the while and my heart unmoved? Why should he think me cruel or that he is betrayed? I'd have him love the thing that was before the world was made.

Just as a good man forgets his deed the moment he has done it, a genuine writer forgets a work as soon as he has completed it and starts to think about the next one; if he thinks about his past work at all, he is more likely to remember its faults than its virtues. Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

poverty proved greater than vanity...

What causes all this?" "Pride. What else?

People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

Don't put your confidence in big names When they die and return to the dirt they can't do anything for you.

Two times twice now, I have been called arrogant, by the decadent.I'd rather be overly self confident, rather than overly self indulgent.

It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it is ridiculous to show it to others.

Our self-conceit sustains and always must sustain us.

Vanity and narcissism — the compulsive need to be admired and praised — undermine one's courage, for one then fights on someone else's conviction rather than one's own.

It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.