Quotes About Vanity

Many complain of their looks, few of their brains.

one man long as a life and thin as a lie, a second who seems to lack a spine, and a third whose lower lip juts, whose belly tends to squashiness, whose hair is thinning and greasy and worming over the tops of his ears, and between whose eyebrows is the tell-tale furrow that will, as he ages, deepen into the scar of a bitter, angry man.

I had thought myself free of him, but that was vanity. Death shows us the power of blood.

Prayer reveals to souls the vanity of earthly goods and pleasures. It fills them with light, strength and consolation; and gives them a foretaste of the calm bliss of our heavenly home.

It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.

The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions.

Man's strength is but little, and futile his concerns.

There is no limit to the vanity of this world. Each spoke in the wheel thinks the whole strength of the wheel depends upon it.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

The secret of my success is my hairspray.

The funny thing about having all this so-called success is that behind it is a certain horrible emptiness.

Success usually breeds a degree of hubris.

When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more.

What is the use of acquiring one's heart's desire if one cannot handle and gloat over it, show it to one's friends, and gather an anthology of envy and admiration?

I would enjoy experiencing the hollowness of success at first- hand.

The top line is that hubris is a disease that comes from success.

It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit.

We have our clothes, some more splendid than others,—this is our credit; but when a man dies he has only his skin;

I processi politici sono sempre vane formalità, perché le passioni che fanno accusare fanno anche condannare. Tale è la tremenda logica delle rivoluzioni.

El orgullo de quienes no pueden edificar es destruir.

Now, I'm ridiculously attached to my head, seeing that it seems to go rather well with my shoulders.

Now, I entertain a ridiculous partiality for my head, it seems to suit my shoulders so correctly.

the pedant who has tried to put on his own head a crown which he stole from under a pillow--of

Porthos, you are as vain as Narcissus; I plainly tell you so, replied Aramis.