Quotes About Vanity

My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.

It's the decomposition that gets me. You spend your whole life looking after your body. And then you rot away.

Let us think often that our only business in this life is to please God. Perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity.

Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.

I've never done Botox in my life. But I've probably tried everything else under the sun

Remember that life holds out many pleasing deceits to us by the vanity of glory; for that when we are beginning to live, then we are dying. There is, therefore, nothing more profitless than ambition.

You can spend your whole life trying to be popular, but at the end of the day, the size of the crowd at your funeral will be largely dictated by the weather.

Man's life is but a jest, A dream, a shadow, bubble, air, a vapor at the best.

By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

I'm not cut out to be a famous person I can't do my hair and makeup well enough.

I think I might actually die of showing off. It'll be on my headstone - 'Cause of Death: Showing Off.'

Peter will never admit it, but he loves to get dressed up. So vain.

To go about without a linen scarf on is nothing: what is praiseworthy is to be without money to buy one. It is disgraceful and absurd to boast of having neither napkin nor handkerchief and yet to carry a well-filled purse.

Beyond this our life did not extend. And of this nothing remains.

?tii ceva, Fritz, femeile sunt, totuÈ™i, mult mai bune decât noi. -Cum ai descoperit deodat? aÈ™a ceva? -Nu È™tiu nici eu.Cea mai bun? dovad? este iubirea.La b?rbat ea înseamn? mai mult dorin??, la femeie, mai degrab? sacrificiu.La b?rbat intr? în joc vanitatea, la femeie, nevoia de ocrotire.M? gândesc la femeia adev?rat?, nu la femeiuÈ™ti.

It is one of the meaner aspects of narcissism that we feel that practically everyone is expendable except ourselves.

She had the lovely high cheekbones for arrogance.

De todas las formas en que uno puede ser herido, la mía era la más ridícula.

There are only two possible outcomes whenever you compare yourself to another, vanity or bitterness, and both are without value.

Charity belongs to nobody. Its image, a soap bubble, shines for an instant, bursts, and never knows who blew it.

Conqueror's glory be damned. I hadn't even managed to wash my hair in a week.

I manage. I manage because I have to. Because I've no other way out. Because I've overcome the vanity and pride defense against being different. Because I've understood that the sun shines differently when something changes. The sun shines differently, but it will continue to shine

It seems with every match I win, I get better-looking to other people.