Quotes About Vanity

Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.

Hence vain deluding Joys,The brood of Folly without father bred!

empty things for empty men.

Youre a Very Beautiful Boy," the director tells Skipper. "And in this town thats All that matters.")

Remember that the most beautiful things in life are often the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

The thing about Botox is that when you've had too much, you then have to fake reactions just to look human--and it's impossible to distinguish real fake reactions from fake fake reactions.

On suicide: Those are vanities, child. They cause immeasurable suffering in this life and all future lives. Who knows, perhaps you have been given this harsh portion because of misdeeds in some past life.

Vain the ambition of kings Who seek by trophies and dead things To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind.

he saw the thin wrists that protruded inches out of his coat sleeves; and he wondered if he appeared as ludicrous to others as he did to himself.

Most men think well of themselves, and this is self-delusion. Vain

But, as I understand it, your God is a universal God; He is God on all suns and all planets. Surely, then, He must have universal form? Would it not be a staggering vanity to imagine that He can manifest Himself only in the form that is appropriate to this particular, not very important planet?

In the end, defeat, and the cold, must come. First to the system, then the galaxy, then the universe, and the rest will be silence. Not to admit that is a fools vanity.' She paused. ' Yet one grows flowers because they are lovely - not because one wishes them to live forever.

The living form defies evolution at its peril; if it does not adapt, it will be broken. The idea of completed man is the supreme vanity: the finished image is a sacrilegious myth.

The idea of completed man is the supreme vanity

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.

The proud may be for a time in great power, and may see success in all that they undertake; but in the end they will find only disappointment and wretchedness.

By his own bitter experience, Solomon learned the emptiness of a life that seeks in earthly things its highest good.

I always felt sorry for humans, spending so much time in front of the mirror. Fixing their hair, makeup, and clothes, mostly to impress others. Did they really see themselves in the mirror? Was it what they wanted to see? Did it make them feel good or bad? And mostly I wondered if they based their self-image on their reflected one.

If you let your head get too big, it'll break your neck.

Vain glory or vanity is nothing else but excessive pride, regard, trust, hope, admiration or dependence in one's own or someone else's riches, wealth, social status, family background, qualification, beauty, handsomeness or stuffs like that. Oh! yes, that's just what vain glory or vanity is all about. So, beware of that. -Emeasoba George

Ako bi samo ose?aj taštine bio dovoljan za kanonizaciju, kakav bih tek svetac bio! Na vrhu hijerarhije svetaca!

One always perishes by the self one assumes: to bear a name is to claim an exact mode of collapse.

Pope Innocent IX, who, having commissioned a painting in which he was shown on his deathbed, glanced at it each time he had to make some important decision.

Gli uomini soffrono dell'avvenire, si precipitano nella vita, fuggono nel tempo, cercano. E niente mi fa più male dei loro occhi indagatori, vani, e tuttavia privi di vanità.