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Quotes About Vanity

My hope is that if I take good care of my skin and use Botox, I won't have to use anything else.
~ Courtney Thorne Smith
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
~ Samuel Johnson
Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.
~ Blaise Pascal
The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong He plummets to the dust of hope.
~ Sophocles
Aping urbanity, Oozing with vanity, Plump as a manatee, Faking humanity, Intellectual inanity, Journalistic calamity, Fox Noise insanity, You're a profanity, Hannity.
~ John Cleese
Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
~ St. Jerome
You frantically want to make a mark on the history of humanity? You, King of the Fools! In the very distant future, there shall be no history; there shall remain not even a single trace of anything!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I have a rare form of body dysmorphia in which I absolutely can't stand how good I look.
~ Anthony Jeselnik
She got a mud pack and looked great for two days. Then the mud fell off
~ Red Skelton
I got my hair highlighted because I felt some strands were more important than others.
~ Mitch Hedberg
Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.
~ Karl Barth
You know what keeps me humble? Mirrors!
~ Phyllis Diller
A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
~ Henry Ford
I'm too young, too smart and too good-looking to die.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, Invincible
I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.
~ Jane Austen, Persuasion
Showing off seemed to me to be a highly valuable and necessary activity when I was 20.
~ Dylan Moran
Maybe in fairytales you're only as old as you feel, but here in L. A. you're every second as old as your pores.
~ Lois Greiman, Unscrewed
Vanity might be a "sin" according to some lights, but he thought in measured doses it was one of life's allowable simple pleasures. It helped everyone get through their days.
~ G.M. Malliet
Demons were all about ego, which meant that most demons had some kind of title. I think it made them feel better about their tiny…pitchforks.
~ E.J. Stevens, Shadow Sight
She was the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly ever.
~ Mary Russell Mitford
A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.
~ Dolly Parton
If you let your head get too big, it'll break your neck.
~ Elvis Presley
I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.
~ Bette Davis
In California virtually everyone has had their teeth whitened. If they all smiled at once, they would give us a headache.
~ Garrison Keillor