Quotes About Vanity

Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.

It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good.

All is ephemeral - fame and the famous as well.

What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.

Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.

There is no glory in otustripping donkeys.

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the naughtiest of them all?

Vanity does not pay the bills.

The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.

If I can avoid looking at myself, I will. I don't care to examine myself or see much of what I do. I never care how I look.

I have learnt over the years to know which camera angle makes me look better.

I mean, I don't like anyone who likes themselves too much.

It actually makes me squirm now, when I see my chapped lips on television.

If I had a lock of hair out of place then I would not feel OK.

People's clothes ought to be buried with them.

If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.

We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.

Television. Maybe it was all a study in the art of mummification. The effect of the medium is so evanescent that those who work in its time apparatus feel the need to preserve themselves, delivering their bodies to be lacquered and trussed, sprayed with the rarest of pressurized jellies, all to one end, a release from the perilous context of time. This is their only vanity, to expect to dwell forever in hermetic sub-corridors, free of every ravage, secure as old kings asleep in sodium.

The life of a star of this type and magnitude. Isn't the life structured to cut you down early? This is the point, isn't it? There are rules, guidelines. If you don't have the grace and wit to die early, you are forced to vanish, to hide as if in shame and apology.

If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.

What fools men are to raze a city, destroying tombs, and temples, and sacred places, when they are so soon to die themselves.

There was no vanity here, only the calm acceptance of her own worth and of her own talent, and he knew enough about her past to realize how hard that must have been to achieve.

La infatigable búsqueda de una perfección inalcanzable, así se trate sólo de aporrear un viejo piano, es lo que por sí mismo da sentido a nuestra vida en esta vana estrella.» Logan Pearsall Smith.

There you have it! - How they anticipate my wishes, how they grant friendship's little attentions, which are worth a thousand times more than breathtaking presents that merely prove the giver's vanity and humiliate us.