Quotes About Vanity

The prudent people are to able measure a person's level of selfishness by the amount of time s/he spends enjoying looking to oneself in the mirror.

When a bumptious person addresses the public from the dais, he ensures to have a big photo of oneself in the background and often all around own picture posters or cut-outs in the auditorium or on the street and ground.

His sin, indeed, had been Pride. And the pride was still there, nowhere more apparent than in his inability to come face to face with himself.

There is nothing so irritating as the man who is always coming in and informing all and sundry that he has repaired his sledge, or built a wall, or filled the cooker, or mended his socks.

If you love things, you will strive to objectify yourself in terms of money, power, pleasure, and prestige—idols all. You will worship yourself—or, at least, a two-dimensional cutout of yourself.

The Quakers don't believe in music or art; they think it's a vanity.

There are bigger queens of the selfie, but I'm up there.

How quickly passes away the glory of this world.

Pride creates a noise within us which makes the quiet voice of the Spirit hard to hear. And soon, in our vanity, we no longer even listen for it. We can come quickly to think we don't need it.

Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.

What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.

John Travolta is getting old, despite what his hair is trying to tell us.

Oh, I'm just too chicken to experiment with my face and have it go wrong. I'm not saying I never will. But it's like, what scares you more? Getting old or looking weird?

If someone is going to give me a job looking younger than I am, I'm not going to turn it down. There are worst problems to have.

For some actors, to let go of the glam look isn't easy.

Sometimes I can be distracted by the glamour and the fabulousness.

I know I'm blessed with good looks.

The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.

One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.

We find other people's vanity contrary to our taste only when it is contrary to our vanity.

Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself – in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity – is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.

What a man is begins to betray itself when his talent decreases—when he stops showing what he can do. Talent, too, is finery; finery, too, is a hiding place.

To judge the value of life by whether we find it now unpleasant or not — can a more wild, extravagant vanity be imagined?