Quotes About Vanity

Women, I thought: if they fell over a cliff and thought there was company waiting at the bottom, they'd comb their hair on the way down.

God has not regulated the laws of nature to meet the demands of human vanity." The Spirits' Book

La historia de la cristiandad habla de los mártires que iban al suplicio con alegría; hoy, en vuestra sociedad, no hay necesidad, para ser cristiano, ni del holocausto, ni del martirio, ni del sacrificio de la vida, sino única y sencillamente del sacrificio de vuestro egoísmo, de vuestro orgullo y de vuestra vanidad. Triunfaréis si la caridad os inspira y si la fe os sostiene. (Espíritu protector, Cracovia, 1861).

A man who works hard and uses his wealth to purchase jewelry to adorn himself, suits tailored in London, shoes handmade in Rome, and a hundred-thousand-dollar sportscar, which he drives cautiously and keeps in meticulous repair, will be viewed by everybody as a poor fool with a lot of pathetic needs.

Birinin düÅŸüÅŸünden memnuniyet duymad?kça hala aynaya bakabiliyorsunuz demektir. BaÅŸka birinin vasatl???ndan zevk almak, vasatl???n zirvesidir.

Les imbéciles ne pensent qu'à partager leurs merveilles avec la multitude, ce qui est le plus sûr moyen de perdre son butin, et surtout de le voir se muer en une chose vulgaire.

L'onore consiste il più delle volte nell'essere idioti

Si tu admires ta propre joliesse dans le miroir, que ce soit dans la peur et non dans le plaisir : car ta beauté ne t'apportera rien d'autre que la terreur de la perdre.

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.

I was watching 'Up In The Air' and I thought, 'Jesus, who's the old gray-haired guy?' And it was me. I never wear makeup for movies and now it's starting to show.

It is a temptation for me to wear all my rings at once.

Shaving your head is acceptable. It's when you start wearing toupees and brushing your hair over that things go wrong.

Personally, I think wearing a baby chinchilla says, 'I'm ignorant.'

I think that it's hard for vain people to be funny. I think you can look any way you want as long as you have a good sense of humor about yourself. People who are concerned with their looks and what they're wearing and how they present themselves tend to have less of a sense of humor about themselves.

I declare I would rather be a kitten and cry, 'Mew!' than live as I see many of my female acquaintances do, tearing each other's characters to pieces, and wearing out their lives in vanity and vexation of spirit.

There's nothing like getting yourself into character and seeing a different person. It really wears on your vanity.

After Chuck Berry died, it seemed web sites popped up like mushrooms to show where he'd taken the guitar introduction to 'Johnny B. Goode' from to prove that his music was nothing new, that it was only ignorance, or vanity, that led his listeners to think that not only was the music different - they might be, too.

For my own poor part, I go to great lengths to keep my nostrils sightly.

Nothing ages as poorly as a beautiful woman's ego.

It's marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last.

There's a way that mirrors can be portals towards vanity, but there are also ways they can be portals towards self-reflection and understanding.

Frankly, it's embarrassing to have a house filled with giant portraits of yourself.

Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God.