Quotes About Vanity

No. Forget it. You're only fooling yourself." "About what?" "About anything being worth a damn. It's dust, lady, all of it, dust and blood.

You're not even boasting about it." "Should I?" "You can't. You're too arrogant to boast.

But you're wrong, Paul, you're so wrong! What would happen to Henry's vanity if he didn't have us to throw alms to? What would become of his strength if he didn't have weaker people to dominate? What would he do with himself if he didn't keep us around as dependents? It's quite all right, really, I'm not criticizing him, it's just a law of human nature.

that it wasn't just an exercise in vanity or ambition but rather a part of an unbroken chain of progress.

High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.

I got no idea wht a writer of a book should have respect. Or even get the time of day, unless he's a prophet. It's a sign of our present-day hell. Books, think about it, the writer of a book does envy, sloth, gluttony, lust, larceny, greed or what? Oh, vanity. He don't miss a single one of them. He is a peeping Tom, an onanist, a busybody, and he's faking humility every one of God's minutes.

When man created the mirror, he began to lose his soul. He became more concerned with his image than with his self.

A celebrity is any well-known TV or movie star who looks like he spends more than two hours working on his hair.

Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.

I thought narcissism was about self-love till someone told me there is a flip side to it... It is unrequited self-love.

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

Geoffrey [Boycott] is the only fellow I've ever met who fell in love with himself at a young age and has remained faithful ever since

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

Hoping to fashion a mirror, the lover doth polish the face of his beloved until he produces a skull.

Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart.

I'm getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can't stop lifting it, and I love that you know.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

I think if I weren't so beautiful, maybe, I'd have more character

They sin who tell us Love can die: With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity, In Heaven Ambition cannot dwell, Nor Avarice in the vaults of Hell.

The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?

We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries more weight than our self-interest.

When it's not just naïveté, the attempt to rescue someone is often fuelled by vanity and narcissism.

The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.

El narciso que se empereza en la contemplación de su propia belleza, o de su propia importancia, o de su propia desdicha, y morosamente la paladea con ayuda de un analista, descansa confortablemente en el diván de su tristeza.