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Quotes About Vanity

Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.
~ Aldous Huxley
Life's too short to worry about injecting botulism into your face to get rid of a tiny line because you've laughed too much. To me, that's a bit warped.
~ Ashley Jensen
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
~ Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
With her curling blond hair and her slender limbs and her beautiful clothes, Inez was alluring in an obvious way, and yet it was easy enough to see that her slightly protruding blue eyes were blank screens of self-love on which a small selection of fake emotions was allowed to flicker.
~ Edward St. Aubyn
Some for renown on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote. To patch-work learned quotations are allied; Both strive to make our poverty our pride.
~ Edward Young
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, /And think they grow immortal as they quote.
~ Edward Young
As one can find expired, trash, low and cheap standard material at open markets easily; similarly, mostly fools, ignorant, frustrated, ill-minded, suffering from self-vanity, and such ones, can be available freely, on Wikipedia websites.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Eradicate the vanity conduct and shower, love, respect, and equality; since, where that breeze and wave, one goes and breathes there. It shows human nature, not disloyalty.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Nothing else than the worst and abysmal self-defeat, which elucidates that; one fetches and embraces itself to become the victim of own ego, vanity, and jealousy.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
One handcuffs itself, with its vanity character; it breaks the best ties and contacts.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
The ego destroys its egoist silently and suddenly, as a termite does.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
The ego, vanity, jealousy and such other flaws define the imperceptive attitude and fly silently, towards self-victimizing.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
The majority of journalists, politicians, celebrities, and such others suffer from incurable egoism.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
I'm too handsome for God to send me to hell. The rest of you are in for it, though.
~ Elaine Corvidae
It seems to me they're not really happy unless they're at the same time on public display and at their worst.
~ Elaine Dundy
Kat hates men like that, men who are too attractive for their own good-and know it.
~ Eleanor Herman
Then she added a sentence I will always remember: "the beauty of mind Cerullo had from childhood never found an outlet, Greco, it has all ended up in her face, in her breasts, in her thighs, in her ass, places where it soon fades and will be as if she never had it.
~ Elena Ferrante
Who says I'm vain?" "The comparison: your friend isn't. But I'm sorry for her, vanity is a resource. If you're vain you pay attention to yourself and your affairs.
~ Elena Ferrante
The beauty of mind that Cerullo had from childhood didn't find an outlet, Greco, and it has all ended up in her face, in her breasts, in her thighs, in her ass, places where it soon fades and it will be as if she had never had it.
~ Elena Ferrante
The sky suggests the vastness of creation and the smallness of man's ambition. It startles us out of our dreams of vanity, it silences our pride, it stills the lust to get and spend. It is more dangerous for a human soul to fall into than for a human body to fall out of.
~ Anthony M. Esolen
Narcissists are bound to feel that their own death is the end of everything that really matters.
~ Anthony Storr
Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
~ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
I wake up every morning, look in the mirror and ask, 'Am I a sex symbol?' Then I go back to bed again. It's stupid to think that way.
~ Antonio Banderas
PARÁBOLAS VII Dice la razón: Busquemos la verdad. Y el corazón: Vanidad. La verdad ya la tenemos. La razón: ¡Ay, quién alcanza la verdad! El corazón: Vanidad. La verdad es la esperanza. Dice la razón: Tú mientes. Y contesta el corazón: Quien miente eres tú, razón. que dices lo que no sientes. La razón: Jamás podremos entendernos, corazón. El corazón: Lo veremos.
~ Antonio Machado