Quotes About Vanity

How could you look more stupid than to be the guy accepting a bronze medal in gold shoes?

Our pride keeps us from breaking our pride. Our pride tells us we don't have pride issues.

Pretty's just a pretty word.

It is vanity to chase the whirlwind.

Vanity dulls the senses.

Criticism often hides incompetence & increases vanity. Therefore critics are always more vain that the achievers they criticize.

one who possessed Beauty without Vanity,"' he said aloud to Barnabas. '"Strength without Insolence, / Courage without Ferocity, / And all the virtues of Man without his Vices.

But then, What is not vain, by God, in lives of men? All is in vain! We play at blind man's buff Until hard edges break into out path. Man life's is error. Where, then, is relief? In shedding tears or wrestling down my grief?

Is a couple of hairs above my lip really worthy of this much effort?" I asked. "Yes," they both replied at once.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

As I was driving down Beach Blvd., I saw a building that said, "Self Storage," and I thought, "I wonder if my ego could possibly fit in just one unit.

Once ego and pride are on the line, you can't change your mind without looking bad.

she barely moved and was, of course, concerned only with her own beautification and cleanliness. She dozed or was, at any rate, lying down, eyes closed, on her front, on her back, on one side, on the other, covered in sunscreen, her gleaming arms and legs always fully extended so that no part of her would remain untanned, no fold in her skin, even her armpits, even her groin (nor, it goes without saying, her buttocks)

Yo he visto a mujeres no muy guapas ponerse guapísimas en esa situación de medio olvido, no les dura más que lo que dura el polvo, sea mal dicho y a las claras.

I have seen everything that is done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind." When you reach this point, you are one step away from despair — and one step away from enlightenment.

Egos are drawn to bigger egos.

Vanity takes no more obnoxious form than the everlasting desire for approval.

No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity

It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.

Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self depreciation.

it is almost as stupid to let your clothes betray that you know you are ugly as to have them proclaim that you think you are beautiful.

She had in truth no abstract propensity to malice: she did not dislike Lily because the latter was brilliant and predominant, but because she thought that Lily disliked her. It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.

She rose, and walking across the floor stood gazing at herself for a long time in the brightly lit mirror above the mantelpiece. The lines in her face came out terribly; she looked old; and when a girl looks old to herself, how does she look to other people?

No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity, and the sense of being of importance among the insignificant was enough to restore to Miss Bart the gratifying consciousness of power.