Quotes About Vanity

If someone calls me vain and mean, I know that he trusts me and has something to confess to me.

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.

There was no idiocy bigger than that committed by a man who believed himself the cleverest creature under the sun.

Inside the house she took off both her hat and her wig—a woman's wig, this time—and sat down in front of the vanity table to massage her scalp. In the mirror she seemed thinner. Was she already down to only one point two chins? Another face appeared in the mirror. "Counting your chins?" "Me? How dare you accuse me of such rampant self-absorption!

When she looked back at Charlotte, she said, "I think your austerity measures are working. You're visibly farther from Maximum Tolerable Chins than you were a few days ago." Charlotte patted herself under her jaw. "I will not bore you with tales of hardship, but it has been dreadful. The things I do in service to my vanity.

Charlotte sat before her vanity, pinning up her hair and counting her chins.

All sufferings come from false pride.

And you will learn that sometimes pain can do what even joy cannot, such as exposing the vanity of earth's trifles and filling your heart with longing for the peace of heaven.

We'll probably never save our souls - but hell, at least we'll get our hair sorted.

One of the things I don't like about being tall is having to see the tops of people's heads, especially those of middle-aged men. You can always tell when they're slicking their hair forward to hide baldness. Or worse, you see their dandruff like sugar sprinkles on a cake.

Men," said Suzie. "Why don't you just get them out and measure them?

Stalin was always exceptional, even from childhood. We have relied on Trotsky's unrecognizably prejudiced portrait for too long. The truth was different. Trotsky's view tells us more about his own vanity, snobbery and lack of political skills than about the early Stalin.

Sylvia grabs my sleeve. "He's a looker." "I know. The problem is, he knows it, too.

I look ridiculous and stupid. As I check myself in the bathroom mirror, I want to back out. I'm wearing a skintight leotard/body suit obviously designed by women who have no clue about men's plumbing, because the outline of my dick is obscene. Don't dudes who do this ridiculous sport wear a cup or something? I've been on a trampoline, but I've never done synchronized trampolining. Looking at myself in the mirror, I can see why.

A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.

This overt touch of vanity made me pity him for a moment.

The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.

Love of power more frequently originates in vanity than pride (two qualities, by the way, which are often confounded) and is, consequently, yet more peculiarly the sin of little than of great minds.

The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!

I love a selfie in the mirror.

Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child.