Quotes About Vanity

Il y a de la folie à courir le hasard de devenir fou par vanité.

To rot under marble or to rot under earth is still to rot.

Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is.

Hodie mihi cras tibi, said the inscription. Sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today, yours tomorrow. And thus passes away the glory of the world.

Hodie mihi cras tibi. Sic transit gloria mundi.

Used as he was to general approbation of his person, he was amused to discover that his vanity was mildly affronted at her plain astonishment that such an insignificant sort as himself should be brother to the darkly dramatic Edgar DeVane. (Haunted Soldier)

Thee is a rooster, William," Rachel said mournfully. "I saw this in thee before, but now I know it for certain." "A rooster," he repeated coldly, brushing dirt from his sleeve. "Indeed. A vain, crowing, gaudy sort of fellow—that's what you think me?

Man is like the grass that withers and is thrown into the fire; he is like the sparks that fly upward Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and his place will know him no more

I sign a lot of autographs and take a lot of pictures. That's why I've always got to keep my hair done now.

I think you could very much make a 'Vanity Fair' in 2018, and I think it would probably look like a documentary.

What I hate is that not many people admit to having a big ego, but you have to - and there's nothing wrong with it.

My ego is really good. I don't need to watch myself on TV, like some others.

My ego and my vanities have nothing to do with comedy.

It's not good to have a huge ego.

The worst quality in a man is a really big ego - that would turn me off.

I went to electric razors so I would not have to look at myself in the morning.

Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it's nothing but vanity, human vanity.

Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.

hakol havel (Hebrew: "Vanity of vanities… All is vanity"): Ecclesiastes 12:8.

I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.

Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?

Her vanity did not worry him since he profited by it so much;

Some seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge: that is curiosity. Others seek knowledge that they may themselves be known: that is vanity. But there are still others who seek knowledge in order to serve and edify others, and that is charity." The

Lockhart'll sign anything if it stands still long enough.