Quotes About Vanity

As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.

I would not live alway: let me alone: for my days are vanity.

Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.

There was a ship came from the north country,And the name of the ship was the Golden Vanity.And they feared she might be taken by the Turkish enemy,That sails upon the Lowland, Lowland, Lowland,That sails upon the Lowland sea.

How silly were the idolaters of old, who knelt before the clumsy wooden figurines of their own making! We are wiser now. We kneel before mirrors.

Sun worshippers? No. These people were here because they worshipped themselves.

The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

Several years ago, I began losing my hair, and like a lot of men, it was a major concern to me, in fact it was practically an obsession. But, also I'm an actor, so I'm in the public eye a lot and I really felt that my hair loss could affect my career prospects.

In politics, my role model would be a very weird one - our second emperor, Pedro the Second. He was a person with no vanity. He cared a lot about the public interest. He cared a lot about Brazil evolving as an important country. And he didn't ask much for himself. He was ousted from power, and he lived with the help of friends in Paris.

I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I'm doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.

I've learned to stay away from publicity addicts, people who want to be famous for no reason.

It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.

Balthazar Balsan is not a self-portrait. If he was, I'd have made the character more flattering.

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

I try not to focus on fame; I don't even really know what it means exactly because it's so fleeting.

I know how limited and how fleeting fame is, so I just try not to get excited about it, honestly.

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.

I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.

For my type of story and my kind of writing, I think 'Vanity Fair' is the right forum.

As for success, I don't care for it. It is a fragile thing.

I tried Botox once. Never again. It made my forehead freeze.

I think people are addicted to looking good in front of other people.

You know what actors are like; they moisturize every night. They're frozen in time.

I guess it is vanity that makes most of us keep straight, if we do keep straight, in this world.