Quotes About Vanity

The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.

Elle aurait aimé, si l'orgueil Pareil à la lampe inutile Qu'on allume près d'un cercueil, N'eût veillé sur son coeur stérile. Elle est morte, et n'a point vécu. Elle faisait semblant de vivre. De ses mains est tombé le livre, Dans lequel elle n'a rien lu.

If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.

You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere.

I'm a big fan of lip fillers and collagen waves.

Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.

The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.

Motherhood takes vanity completely out of the picture. Comfort is the key. When you are coming out of a plane after a 9-hour flight with drool all over your clothes, the last thing you are worried about is being photographed. You just want to take your kid home.

I find it amusing when you look at plastic surgeons because they don't seem to have had anything done.

I have plenty of vanity in my life. I want to look pretty in the world. But it can be this bottomless pit.

Okay, sense of humor: plus one. Being able to laugh at yourself: plus one. Being able to laugh at other people without being mean: plus one. Vanity: minus one.

I like anything with my face on it, just from an aesthetic point of view.

I can't stand the club scene. It's all about impressing people.

I love lipsticks and have quite a collection.

When you have a book out, it's like a period of protracted or concentrated megalomania, and it's really not normal or good for you or any of that.

I think male actors get confused by their own vanity.

Being in the world of fashion you have to be very self-absorbed, and you are surrounded by people who are very self-absorbed.

I'll never go down the Botox route. I swear to God, never, ever. I want to look like me... the only thing I've had done is my hair and the bags under my eyes taken away.

I hate sweating, running and getting that red-faced look.

I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.

In my own sweet way, I'm quite a superficial person.

My favorite was the one about 'Snow White'. Those funky little guys with the beards. The poisonous apple. And that cool mirror the evil stepmother used to talk to. You know, she'd ask it all these questions: Who's the nicest? Who's the sweetest... Who's the fairest of them all? And for a while, everything was hunky-dory.

Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away!