Quotes About Vanity

It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.

From a certain age onwards vanity and wisdom combine to ensure that the things we desire the most are those that seem not to matter to us. But in love, simple foresight—which is probably not real wisdom—forces us to develop this talent for duplicity early in life.

Men who believe that their work will last—as was the case with Elstir—form the habit of placing that work in a period when they themselves will have crumbled into dust. And thus, by obliging them to reflect on their own extinction, the thought of fame saddens them because it is inseparable from the thought of death

You will quickly be reduced to ashes and skeleton. And it may be you will have a name left you, and it may be not. And what is a name? Nothing but sound and echo.

It is a disgrace to let ignorance and vanity do more with us than prudence and principle.

All is ephemeral--fame and the famous as well.

He who has a vehement desire for posthumous fame does not consider that every one of those who remember him will himself also die very soon.

In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names

I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europa.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

There is no glory in otustripping donkeys.

Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.

Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.

Vane diventano le parole ripetute troppe volte.

Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.

Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?

Behold,' said the Voice, 'earthly beauty. It is nothing but seeming, for to the uninstructed eye the world appears fruitful and sweet, yet in it is nothing but a pile of skulls, showing where others were lost as they went before.

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

Egotism fears its own self.

There are certain restaurants where you should photograph the food rather than eat it. These are great places to bring a narcissistic boyfriend before you break up.

I like any dog that makes me look good when it stands next to me.

They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting.

Good-looking people turn me off. Myself included.

Acting is an empty and useless profession.