Quotes About Vanity

Who has not for the sake of his reputation sacrificed himself?

Is not wounded vanity the mother of all tragedies?

Those who inflate themselves are cursed When pricked by a small pin to burst.

Além todo o discurso é vão! A melhor sabedoria é esquecer e passar: foi isto que aprendeste agora.

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

This vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never understanding anything.

I cannot feel my legs from the waist down any longer. But who cares? I look good and that's all that matters. And when I die of hypothermia for wearing formal shorts in winter, tell them to put that on my tombstone.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.

A fool is wise in his eyes.

Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

I wish my hair was thicker, and I wish my feet were prettier. My toes are really ugly. I wish my ears were smaller. And my nose could be smaller too.

In my 20s, I used to cry about why I wasn't thinner or prettier, but I want to add that I also used to cry about things like, 'I wish my hair would grow faster. I wish I had different shoes...' I was an idiot... It's a decade of tears.

There's many a man has more hair than wit.

How vain, without the merit, is the name.

The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

It's obvious nonsense, but it makes nice people feel good about themselves to do their bit for the planet. It's vanity of a grotesque kind to believe that mankind, and our 'carbon footprint', has more impact on the future of Earth than Nature, which bends our planet to its will, as it sees fit.

Mirrors are ice which do not melt: what melts are those who admire themselves in them.