Quotes About Vanity

To Crystal, hair was the most important thing on earth. She would never get married because you couldn't wear curlers in bed.

If the life of natural things, millions of years old, does not seem sacred to us, then what can be sacred? Human vanity alone?

An empty man is full of himself.

If the life of natural things, millions of years old, does not seem sacred to us, then what can be sacred? Human vanity alone? Contempt for the natural world is contempt for life. The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature. Anything becomes permissible. We return once more to the nightmare cultures of Hitler, Stalin, King Philip II, Montezuma, Caligula, Heliogabalus, Herod, the Pharaohs; Christ sacrificed himself in vain.

Vanity, vanity, nothing but vanity: the itch for naming things is almost as bad as the itch for possessing things.

The Ides are come, not gone." "Tush! if he is a soothsayer, you are not Caesar. It is your vanity that makes you credulous. Thank Heaven, I do not think myself of such importance that the operations of Nature should be changed in order to frighten me." "But why should the operations of Nature be changed? There may be a deeper philosophy than we dream of, — a philosophy that discovers the secrets of Nature, but does not alter, by penetrating, its courses.

So passes away the glory of the world.

Beauty's sister is vanity, and its daughter lust.

All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.

These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it.

You're through in pictures, and plays, and vaudeville, and radio, and everything! You're a corpse, and you don't know it. Go get yourself buried.

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils.

Swallow your pride occasionally, it's non-fattening!

Surely every man walketh in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

Every man at his best state is altogether vanity.

Pride is hateful before God and man.

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me.

Walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet.

The fashion of this world passeth away.

Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

Whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.

If a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her.

Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope.