Quotes About Vanity

The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.

It's more important to look good, than to feel good," Lucas said. "What?" "Never mind. Before your time," Lucas said.

It's more important to look good, than to feel good," Lucas said.

God damn it, Thomas said as he sat down at the table, carrying a tray so piled with food that it was a miracle he could even lift it. Aren't we all just too good-looking for words.

Imagine if every species named itself after its greatest flaw. We could name our species arrogance.

Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

Margie had known many men, most of them guilty, wounded in their vanity, or despairing, so that she had developed a contempt for her quarry as a professional hunter of vermin does. It was easy to move such men through their fears and their vanities. They ached so to be fooled that she no longer felt triumph--only a kind of disgusted pity.

When he first got the job with Kate, Joe looked for the weaknesses on which he lived—vanity, voluptuousness, anxiety or conscience, greed, hysteria. He knew they were there because she was a woman.

Some men there are who go down the dismal wrack of soldiering, surrender themselves, and become faceless. But these had not much face to start with. And maybe you're like that. But there are others who go down, submerge in the common slough, and then rise more themselves than they were, because—because they have lost a littleness of vanity and have gained all the gold of the company and the regiment.

You can boast about anything if it's all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.

Mankind in the aggregate I have found to be brutish, ignorant and unkind, whether those qualities were covered by the coarse tunic of the peasant of the white and purple toga of a senator. And yet in the weakest of men, in moments when they are alone and themselves, I have found veins of strength like gold in decaying rock; in the cruelest of men, flashes of tenderness and compassion; and in the vainest of men, moments of simplicity and grace.

"Beauty fades," my father would tell me, "but dumb? Dumb is forever."

Despite my vanity, I fear for my sanity.

Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.

Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity.

If you admire yourself in the mirror, let it be in fear and not delight, because the only thing that beauty will bring to you is terror of losing it.

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

There are travelers who fear to own delicate hands more than to meet a lion, and soldiers who would rather lose a limb than gain a beautiful nose by artificial methods.

Clemency, which we make a virtue of, proceeds sometimes from vanity, sometimes from indolence, often from fear, and almost always from a mixture of all three.

It is very sad to me that some people are so intent on leaving their mark on the world, that they dont care if that mark is a scar.

Such is life... To live, to die... To be but a ripple in the waters of time.... And when the ripples do finally clear... As does the truth of your existence... Disappear.

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

A sign of growing old is when interviewers start asking you,What would you do differently if you had your life to live over again? I give some sort of answer because I dont wish to be rude, but I dont tell them the image that comes into my mind because they would think it vain and frivolous, and no one wants to be a subject for ridicule. I see myself as a tall, skinny Fellini, vigorously lifting weights. Thats what I would do differently. I would lift weights.