Quotes About Vanity

I stare at this ceaseless, rushing crowd and imagine a time a hundred years from now. In a hundred years everybody here-me included-will have disappeared from the face of the earth and turned into ashes or dust. A weird thought, but everything in front of me starts to seem unreal, like a gust of wind could blow it all away.

There can be no meaning in what will someday be lost. Passing glory is not true glory at all.

Whenever things were going well, I started to feel vain.

Went to Jude's party tonight in a tight little black dress to show off figure feeling v. full of myself... ... There's nothing worse than people telling you you looked tired. They might as well have done with it and say you look like five kinds of shit.

We do not want to be seduced," Mrs. Ballard had once said, "into seeing who can bake the richest cake.")

I have the vanity to think that every play I have written is different from the previous ones. Yet, even though they are written in a different way, they all deal with the same themes, the same preoccupations. 'Exit the King' is also 'The Bald Soprano.'

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

Under all wrongdoing lies personal vanity or the feeling that we are endowed and privileged beyond our fellows.

I've had to gain weight for roles and ugly myself up for roles. So yeah, I'm game. I'm game for that kind of thing. I'm certainly not too vain in that respect. If it's a great role, I'm willing to do whatever it is that it takes.

I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don't doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.

Up to his twenty-sixth year, the heart of Ignatius was enthralled by the vanities of the world. His special delight was in the military life, and he seemed led by a strong and empty desire of gaining for himself a great name.

If I was younger and I got a new tracksuit, hat, trainers, you couldn't tell me I didn't look good. I thought I was dressed up.

Pride is about the ugliest trait somebody can have.

Now, I'm not saying I'm fashionable, but there are sociological interests that matter to me, things that are theoretical, political, intellectual and also concerned with vanity and beauty that we all think about but that I try to mix up and translate into fashion.

It was at that moment, that moment right before my certain death, that I finally realized that nothing done in selfish or vain ambition will ever last. Anything that you do solely for yourself, will rot away, decompose, turn to dust and blow away at the moment of your passing.

Through your rags I see your vanity.

The arrogance of these people!

Jewelry takes people's minds off your wrinkles.

Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.

The tyrant is a child of PrideWho drinks from his great sickening cupRecklessness and vanity,Until from his high crest headlongHe plummets to the dust of hope.

The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong He plummets to the dust of hope.

Our entire life worth's less than one moment of the absolute's truth vanity.

We should all have the freedom to die with majesty in an unworthy life which was subjected to sin and vanity.

Our entire life worth's less than one moment of the absolute's truth vanity.