Quotes About Vanity

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.

The vain man is generally a doubter. It is Newton who sees himself as child on the sea shore, and his discoveries in the colored shell.

Instead, the room, which had seen her grow to maturity, would see her dry up and fade. The gilt mirror in the corner would bear its dispassionate testimony. All the ornaments and furnishings would be her companions through the years to come. And she realized that she would come to hate them, if she didn't already hate them, as one hates the witnesses of one's humiliation and futility.

Fashion is the work of the devil."

He] didn't like to think of himself as vain, but there were definitely times when he wished there was someone on hand to take his photograph.

The mind would like us to think that there is such a thing as "justifiable anger," which takes the form of moralistic indignation. If we look at moralistic indignation, we will see that it is propped up by vanity and pride. We like to think how right we are in a situation and how "wrong" the other persons are.

What's the definition of pathetic: overhearing the conversation of two plastic beauties (absolutely consumed with their image) and encountering the vacuum that exists between the ears of these people.

Vampires must be the least narcissistic creatures. They can't see themselves in the mirror, and they can't take any selfies. Vampires don't belong to Selfie culture. Boo hoo.

Nothing lasts forever, not even the horrors in this life.

La mayor vanidad que hallo entre los hijos de vanidad es, no contentos ser vanos en la vida, procuran aya memoria de sus vanidades después de la muerte.

The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

Pride leads to down fall o f man.

Going down in history is a dead end pursuit

Vanity degrades your soul whereas modesty strengthen it

Fame is an epiphany of bubbles that are transient and pugnacious.

We often feel proud of our knowledge even when it is filled with emptiness.

What a splendid head, yet no brain.

Incivility is not a Vice of the Soul, but the effect of several Vices; of Vanity, Ignorance of Duty, Laziness, Stupidity, Distraction, Contempt of others, and Jealousy.

Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.

Without that poise and balance and gentle humor and caring sense, nothing happens at all. It's just egotism and vanity and jealousy and possessiveness.

Never permit yourself to indulge in cheap flattery, which often times means to merely satisfy the individuals vanity and sometimes to ingratiate the flatter into the good graces of the flattered.

It requires but little acquaintance with the heart to know that woman's first wish is to be handsome; and that, consequently, the readiest method of obtaining her kindness is to praise her beauty.

bThere is, indeed, nothing that man's nature seeks more eagerly than to be flattered.

My body looks like 30 but my face looks like 50. But I cannot walk bare-chested in the streets. I like to do these movies to challenge myself physically.