Quotes About Vanity

If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating itself. That's why I believe there should be a psychiatrist at every health club, so that when they see you doing this, they will take you away for a little chat.

In our game, it's your vanity that keeps you in shape. I've got a little gym set up, and I ride a single-speed bike up the hills behind my house. Lately I've been kind of a slacker. Usually it's a film role that makes me start getting in shape. Between roles, I try to do a little maintenance, but I'm not a workout fanatic at all.

I genuinely enjoy sweating out my frustrations and living a healthier life. My workouts are not all about vanity. They are about clarity for my mind and soul.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

There are times when I flick through magazines and think I'm in danger of becoming a prisoner of my own hair.

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

I get really tired of getting painted up all the time. Basically, I'm a bum.

I hope people don't get tired of looking at me.

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

I hate anything with 'celebrity' in the title, where people are playing to the cameras all the time.

The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.

From my hair to my toes to my nails. Everything's fake. Everything! Even my heart is fake.

C'est la vanité, ce n'est pas d'être équilibré qui va me garder indemne

If you insist that people witness your beauty, they'll watch it closely until it's gone.

Jewelry takes people's minds off your wrinkles

Now, from the crown of my head to the curve of my toe-nails, there was an unguent for every part of me - oil for my eyebrows and cream for my lashes; a jar of tooth-powder, a box of blanc-de-perle; polish for my fingernails and a scarlet stick to redden my mouth; tweezers for drawing the hairs from my nipples, and a stone to take the hard flesh from my heels.

This is an empire called "narcissism.

Bukowski was wrong. these words don't matter. you pound them out and send them off and they're gone just like that and all you're left with is a blank screen staring you in the face.

If it's such a fine place, why did Basanti build his own?" "The Old Pearl is perfectly adequate," said Moncraine. "Basanti built to flatter his self-regard, not fatten his pocketbook." "Because businessmen like to spend lots of money to replace perfectly adequate structures they can use for nearly nothing, right?

The face of Kardashian in an oil stain. Or a doorway to hell. Maybe those are the same thing.

I typically avoid looking in the mirror for fear I will accidentally intimidate myself.

I've spent enough years bustling about in vanity, heaping up stuff that will only end up on the ash heap one day. Should you give me one more, ten more, twenty-five more years, how can the gospel of your kingdom and the riches of your grace claim and fill the span of those very brief years?

Certainly gospel sanity is to be preferred over personal vanity, all the time.

People so staunch and true, they're fixated, Shining with self-regard like polished stones. And their whole life spent admiring themselves For their own long-suffering. Licking their wounds And flashing them around like decorations. I hate it, I always hated it, and I am A part of it myself.