Quotes About Vanity

Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy.

A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.

J'aime en lui sa beauté, sa grâce tant vantée, Présents dont la nature a voulu l'honorer, Qu'il méprise lui-même, et qu'il semble ignorer.

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

Why do old men grow huge beards as if to proclaim a manhood that has long since fled?

If I don't look in the mirror, I can go around thinking I'm gorgeous when I'm not.

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.

A pity, ' he said, without a trace of mockery. 'It seems that those who possess the greatest beauty appreciate it the least.

But the Bible tells us in 1 John 2:16: "For everything in the world—the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes, and the boasting

During the day I would go to my work worn and tired, cursing the bewitching night and her empty dreams, but as night came my daily life with its bonds and shackles of work would appear a petty, false, ludicrous vanity.

Vanitas vanitatum: elective surgery, in other words.

I should have said "powder room." That would evoke the image of me sitting before a beautiful gold mirror, a vase of fresh flowers nearby, freshening my makeup, rather than sitting on a toilet.

Gretchen is sixty-nine years old and one of those former knockouts who just can't stop mourning the loss of her looks. She admits that if she didn't think God would punish her by making her die on the OR table—and if she could afford it—she'd have every bit of plastic surgery she could, head to toe. Gretchen knows she is shallow in this regard, but she kind of enjoys being shallow this way.

There's something about a showgirl that always breaks my heart. Youth and beauty-they're such a short lease, girlie.

Scandal or no scandal, I believe that our friendship was always destined to have been momentary—a collision of two vain young girls who intersected at the zenith of their beauty and the nadir of their intelligence, and who had blatantly used each other to acquire status and turn men's heads. That's all it had ever been, really, and that was perfect. That's all it had ever needed to be. I'd found deeper and richer female friendships later on in life

Shyness, as I have told you many times, is simply another species of vanity. Banish it.

People think they're interesting. That's their first mistake.

She was arriving with an agenda—drop the suit against Robert, first, and agree to dissolve the association for the purpose of donating the lands to a trust—but coached herself that it would be wise to consider his concerns before she asked for anything. Archie wore a gilded cape of male vanity and would need it admired.

Archie materialized, a vision of how aging men delude themselves into believing they have achieved peak allure.

Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.

Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.

I think you are a liar because you think you know what is true. You think you feel what is true. But you do not yet know what you do feel and what you do know. Your desire and do not take; you love and are too afraid to feel your love; you conceal your vanity and pettiness from yourself; you are afraid to look into your soul and see what you are. That iis why i think you are a liar.

I don't know. … Vanity? Insecurity? Kardashianism?

His hair was leaving him as fast as his compassion had, so he grew some muttonchop whiskers to take your mind off his higher vacancy factor.