Quotes About Vanity

Although she tried not to let the rumors that she had followed the Prince out of vanity bother her, she had known that it was partly true. Her aching heart, however, gradually informed her that it was much more than just partly true.

The limitations of man's perception might seem to lead to despair. But the very fact that God has an overarching plan that embraces every human experience points in the opposite direction. You, your daily moment-by-moment circumstances, your final end are all "from the hand of God" (Eccl. 2:24). In this confidence you may deal with the vanity, the frustrations, the transitoriness of daily life.

The wind blows out, the bubble dies; The spring entomb'd in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is past, and man forgot.

Was there any more repellent sight, Harriet wondered, than a silly, self-centred, greedy woman clad in the skin of a beast so much more splendid than herself?

La gloire, c'est comme la gouache, ça prend très vite puis ça part à la première goutte de pluie.

Honesty always sounds like impudence to the vain and stupid.

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

I don't want any description of me to be accurate. I want it to be flattering.

The courageous testimony of Dr. Faust that a maiden's smile is more precious than history, philosophy, education, religion, law, politics,economics, and all the other branches of learning. Learning is another name for vanity. It is the effort of human beings not to be human beings.

Learning is a another name of vanity, It is the effort of human beings not to be human beings.

Learning is another name for vanity. It is the effort of human beings not to be human beings.

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

They are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.

I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.

The first thing God does is forcibly remove any insincerity, pride, and vanity from my life. And the Holy Spirit reveals to me that God loved me not because I was lovable, but because it was His nature to do so.

It was passing strange, I thought, that these two grave strong men should be so gentle over a creature who never cared how she wounded, mocked, flouted, or harmed either of them, to please her sport or charm her vanity

Henry glanced hastily at the mirror. Yes, he did look rather old. He must have overdone some of the lines on his forehead. He looked something between a youngish centenarian and a nonagenarian who had seen a good deal of trouble.

Dr. Franklin says "it is the eyes of others and not our own eyes which ruin us. If all the world were blind except myself I should not care for fine clothes or furniture.

it is the eyes of others and not our own eyes which ruin us. If all the world were blind except myself I should not care for fine clothes or furniture.

MRS. HOLLINGSWORTH LIKES TO traipse. Her primary worry is thinning pubic hair, though this has not happened yet. She is bothered that a thought of this sort could occur to her at all, let alone with some frequency. She enjoys a solidarity with fruit. She is wistful for the era in which hatboxes proliferated, though a hatbox is not something even her grandmother may have owned.

Natural beauty takes at least two hours in front of a mirror.

Self-denigration is all too clearly a form of indirect self-glorification.