Quotes About Vanity

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep.

People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look...like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.

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

Vain people can't focus beyond the reflection of themselves in a vanity.

All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.

Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can't nobody fly with all that sh... Wanna fly, you got to give up the sh.. that weighs you down.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

If I close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I see is one big varicose vein.

Departe-i trilul susei ciocarlii, Chemata-n cer pe scara-i de matasa... Te potrivesti din carji si dioptrii. Si ca-ntr-o apa-adanca, lunecoasa, Ca un copil te ratacesti in casa, Pleci in oglinda-ncet...si nu mai vii.

Do you know what I hate most about being a vampire? Fixing my makeup without a mirror." Carmen

No, por favor. No soporto la vanidad masculina cuando se desata espontáneamente.

When you have praised my leg so beautifully? I can assure you that no female of my acquaintance has ever appreciated my poor leg so much before. When I die, I shall have it embalmed and sent to you.

Her feet hurt, for Lady Clarendon had bought her daughter shoes too small for her in an attempt to make her large feet look smaller.

I know the vanity of your heart, and that you will feel mortified that your congregation is very small, in comparison with those of your brethren around you; but assure yourself on the word of an old man, that when you come to give an account of them to the Lord Christ, at his judgment-seat, you will think you have had enough.

Though there's something more tender, beneath our vanity, our will to become objects of desire: we sweat the mark of our presence onto the cloth.

She died on a windy gray day in March when the sky was full of darting crows and the world lay prostrate and defeated after winter. Peter Lake was at her side and it ruined him forever. It broke him as he had not ever imagined he could have been broken. He would never again be young, or able to remember what it was like to be young. What he had once taken to be pleasures would appear to him in his defeat as hideous and deserved punishments for reckless vanity.

You want to get a good look at yourself. You stand before a mirror, you take off your jacket, unbutton your shirt, open your belt, unzip your fly. The outer clothing falls from you. You take off your shoes and socks, baring your feet. You remove your underwear. At a loss, you examine the mirror. There you are. You are not there.

The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person

There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

I brought a mirror to Lovers' Lane. I told everybody I'm Narcissus.

I'm in the public eye, so I don't care who knows what I get done. If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I get it sucked, tucked, or plucked.