Quotes About Vanity

We've all taken hundreds of selfies until we get the perfect one.

Only death can cure the hip dilettante.

We are all overdressed in our little flashy frocks, our slasher heels, and we all eat small plates of food bites that are as decorative and unsubstantial as we are.

All this could have been avoided if I were less pretty.

Taking a lot of selfies doesn't mean you live an examined life.

there must be some public fools who sacrifice private to public interest at the certainty of ingratitude and obloquy—because my vanity whispers I ought to be one of those fools and ought to keep myself in a situation the best calculated to render service.

a man whose ignorance and perverseness are only surpassed by his pertinacity and conceit.

How hungrily we read about ourselves!

of all this world's creatures, the author is the vainest

A narcissist is someone better looking than you.

If they think you admire them, they will admire you because of your good taste, and when they admire you, you have an illusion for a moment that there's something to admire.

My hair is beginning to go. I'll soon be glabrous.

He's a narcissist, and I wonder what it says about me that I'm willing to sleep with a man whose eyes constantly look past me in search of his own reflection.

It was just that all the hope had been so empty, so meaningless. And if you prove to a man how vain his hope is, how vain his hoping was, you kill the bright, believing part of him that wants to be loved.

When you know you're going to die, there's no comfort in cleverness. Genius is vain, and cleverness is hollow, at the end.

When you know you're going to die, there's no comfort in cleverness. Genius is vain, and cleverness is hollow, at the end. The

but he boasted about the buildings as if they were his own design.

Mirrors on those pillars, and on much of the free wall space, provided the patrons with one of the bar's major attractions: the chance to inspect, admire, and ogle others in a circumspect if not entirely anonymous fashion. For many, the duplication of their own images in two or more mirrors at the same time was not least among the pleasures of the pastime. Leopold's was a place for people to see, to be seen, and to see themselves in the act of being seen

The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play.

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

I'm very vain about my performance. I want to give as honest a performance as I can. But I'm not so worried about being regarded as beautiful when I'm playing a character.

A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity. We're all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.

Why is there such vanity about hair? I make a point to bathe. I worry about boogers in my nose, and I ask the makeup artist to cover up my pimples, but beyond that, I try not to be too vain.

Actors worry about bad breath, weight, receding hairlines and why their leading lady looks like their daughter.