Quotes About Vanity

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.

The Root of evil Avarice, That damn ill-natur'd baneful vice, Was slave to Prodigality, That Noble Sin; whilst Luxury Employ'd a Million of the Poor, And odious Pride a Million more. Envy it self, and Vanity Were Ministers of Industry; Their darling Folly, Fickleness In Diet, Furniture, and Dress, That strange ridic'lous Vice, was made The very Wheel, that turn'd the Trade.

Who built the seven towers of Thebes? The books are filled with the names of kings. Was it kings who hauled the craggy blocks of stone?... In the evening when the Chinese wall was finished Where did the masons go?...

Vanity is a motive of immense potency.

What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power.

And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence

words exclaimed in an empty room are pure self-conscience, the narcissist's folly.

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

The sky is a concave mirror in which Man sees his own distorted image and seeks to propitiate it.

Oysa böbürlenmek neye yarar? Ölümün e?itleyicili?ini unutmaya, olsa olsa.

It is a point of pride for the American male to keep the same size Jockey shorts for his entire life. And so you have a man with a brand-new 40-inch waist who is trying to get into size 36 Jockey shorts, a man who is now wearing a combination of supporter and tourniquet. Proud men have gone to the brink of gangrene to maintain the interior fashion of their youth.

Donald was to my grandfather what the border wall has been for Donald: a vanity project funded at the expense of more worthy pursuits.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

I think it would be interesting to know what it feels like to be the most beautiful woman in the world.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

My first reaction when I watched Les Miserables was, 'Wow, my hair looks good!' They put half a wig in, and I was always kinda worried it was gonna make my head look twice as big!

I think that some people get wrapped up in their own egos. They need to see certain album sales and certain monuments.

I think sometimes we get wrapped up in awards... ultimately, it's just a moment in time, and it passes.

If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older.

We live in a quick-fix society where we need instant gratification for everything. Too fat? Get lipo-sucked. Stringy hair? Glue on extensions. Wrinkles and lines? Head to the beauty shop for a pot of the latest miracle skin stuff. It's all a beautiful £1 billion con foisted upon insecure women by canny cosmetic conglomerates.

As far as vanity and wrinkles and things like that, that's a part of life I don't worry about. I put on creams, you know, but don't go mad, and I don't have any kind of treatments. I just live a healthy lifestyle. And staying happy, not getting negative and angry, I think that helps, looking at the positive of everything.

I'm not into wrinkles.