Quotes About Vanity

Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing.

The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down!

Oh Lord, it's hard to be humble, When you're perfect in every way. I can't wait to look in the mirror, Cause I get better looking each day. To know me is to love me. I must be a hell of a man. Oh Lord it's hard to be humble, But I'm doing the best that I can.

Honor is a fool's prize. Glory is of no use to the dead.

Honor is a fool's prize," Bane replied, reciting a passage from one of the volumes he had recently read in the archives. "Glory is of no use to the dead.

Lying in a featherbed will bring you no fame, nor staying beneath the quilt, and he who uses up his life without achieving fame leaves no more vestige of himself on Earth than smoke in the air or foam upon the water.

But life is short: while one lives, everything is lacking; when one is dead, everything is superfluous.

I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it's a little bit vain, it seems to me.

I'll do one eventually as life's too short and none of us is getting any younger. I'd like to make one while I still look good and before I look like Phil Collins, which, eventually, I will.

Vanity, in a fairy tale, will make you evil. Vanity in the real world will drive you nuts. Vanity makes you say things like "I deserved a better life than this.

O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!

There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.

The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.

I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.

I do think about aging. I have those moments of panic and vanity, but life keeps getting better, so you can't worry about it too much.

I think actresses are imagined to be these subjects of great vanity. Life is change; physicality changes. It's transient, and that's a beautiful and a painful thing.

I've got so many lawyers waiting in line to see me, you'd think that tobacco was leaking from my breast implants.

Hatred stems from pride because vanity makes us detest and have contempt for anything or anyone who detracts from our importance.

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.

A busy woman can't spend whole days in front of mirrors, but she ought to have them all over the house (which improves the décor, too) and make a point of glancing at herself every time she passes one. It's a form of narcissism that pays off. If you are pleased with what you see, chances are he will be, too.

Pampered vanity is a hotter thing perhaps than starved pride.

Tomorrow the mirrors will mock me

We are surrounded by braggarts whose loud mouths propel their thin talent as far as the wind carries.

He that hath nothing to feed on but vanity and lies must needs lie down in the bed of sorrow.