Quotes About Vanity

Strutting and preening is, in fact, the surest sign of an inferiority complex.

Actors are inherently self-centered.

I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.

If you go through my Instagram feed, it's like a flip book of me thinking I'm way more attractive than I am. It's nauseating.

I'm real critical of myself and if I take the bandana off my head I'm completely bald headed and go from being 58 to looking 68 instantly.

The real point of me isn't that I'm good looking. It's that I'm clever. I've got a brain! I would rather be called a highly intelligent historian than a gorgeous pouting one.

'Vanity Fair' caught me at a very exciting time in my life filled with night clubs, international fashion shows, celebrities and lots of cash to go around. Sometimes things just fall into place. 'Vanity Fair' was one of those things.

She spent a lot of time in front of mirrors putting on brown eyeliner

Certain facts of which too keen a perception would act detrimentally to the life-force are, for most men, impossible of realization: i.e. , the uncertainty of life, the decay of the body, the vanity of all things under the sun.

The ant's a centaur in his dragon world.Pull down thy vanity, it is not manMade courage, or made order, or made grace,Pull down thy vanity, I say pull down.Learn of the green world what can be thy placeIn scaled invention or true artistry,Pull down thy vanity,Paquin pull down!The green casque has outdone your elegance.

Pull down thy vanity, it is not man Made courage, or made order, or made grace, Pull down thy vanity I say pull down Learn of the green-world what can be thy place

I did not hesitate to tell them that I not only had the authority of facts, but that it was my conviction that our worst enemy was ourselves, our vanity, our pride and our desire for honor.

The light is always there; we ourselves cause the obscurity, for we cast very long shadows: selfishness, envy, vanity, fear, unkindness—the list is endless, and we can all add to it. . . . I do not think that in this world, we can help casting shadows, but perhaps by conscious effort—through prayer and hard work—we can, during our lifetimes, shorten the shadow and increase the light.

Adesso ella intravvedeva, più distintamente di prima, una cosa orribile: la morte di quell'amore... [...]. No; l'errore era stato suo, nell'aver prestato fede a quell'uomo. Scettico e ambizioso, declamatore e vano, ella lo vedeva qual era.

Claro que diré que escribir es una necesidad fatal: si es fatal, tantas veces, el placer del alcohol o de cualquier alcaloide, siendo elementos venidos del exterior, ¿Cómo no va a ser fatal el placer de la vanidad cuya materia prima la extraemos de nuestras entrañas?

Ninguna cosa es más lexos de verdad que la vulgar opinión. Nunca alegre viuirás, si por voluntad de muchos te riges. Porque estas son conclusiones verdaderas, que qualquier cosa, que el vulgo piensa, es vanidad; lo que fabla, falsedad; lo que reprueua es bondad; lo que aprueua, maldad.

The Minister's drive to achieve another vanity trophy paid for by the regular people who work in Canada's auto sector is amazing to watch and I congratulate him on this ignominious achievement.

By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.

Evil comes from man's own "vain imaginings.

Không có gì th?m h?i h?n m?t ?ám c??ng hào t?nh l? t? hoàn thu? cho mình trong ti?c buffet c?a th? tr??ng

Miopia este ultimul t?u lux. Totul este minunat de vaporos, ca într-un videoclip. Totul este de suprafa??.

In walking, far from any vehicle or machine, from any mediation, I am replaying the earthly human condition, embodying once again man's inborn, essential destitution. That is why humility is not humiliating: it just makes vain pretensions fall away, and thus nudges us towards authenticity.

It's more important to look good than to feel good. Billy Crystal on Saturday Night Live