Quotes About Vanity

Power that affects nothing is mere vanity.

When we are young we do not look into mirrors. It is when we are old, concerned with our name, our legend, what our lives will mean to the future. We become vain with the names we own, our claims to have been the first eyes, the strongest army, the cleverest merchant. It is when he is old that Narcissus wants a graven image of himself.

Nothing lasts. Not even literary or artistic fame protects worldly things around us.

It is when we are old, concerned with our name, our legend, what our lives will mean to the future. We become vain with the names we own, our claims to have been the first eyes, the strongest army, the cleverest merchant. It is when he is old that Narcissus wants a graven image of himself.

For the heavens shall vanish away like smoke and the earth shall wax old like a garment. And they that dwell therein shall die in like manner. For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worms shall eat them like wool.

during the night, in the no-longer-damp path of its stream. Nothing lasts. Not even literary or artistic fame protects worldly

Vanity is my favourite sin.

I look upon pride as a sin.

The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride.

They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.

I always say beauty is only sin deep.

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.

Every six months I fly to Dallas to get botox and I also get collagen injections.

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

Women find it far more difficult to overcome their inclination to coquetry than to overcome their love.

How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!

... without health to enjoy love, and love to enjoy wealth, is not all vanity?

For me the motley and the bauble, yea, Though all be vanity, as the Preacher saith, The mirth of love be mine for one brief breath!

Aside from my love of animation, as an actor I like the total lack of vanity in terms of not having to worry at all about your appearance. You don't have to deal with hair or makeup or wardrobe.

How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!

One of the hardest ideas for humans to accept,' he says, 'is that we are not the culmination of anything. There is nothing inevitable about our being here. It is part of our vanity as humans that we tend to think of evolution as a process that, in effect, was programmed to produce us.

It was an odd situation. For a century and a half, men got rid of their own hair, which was perfectly comfortable, and instead covered their heads with something foreign and uncomfortable. Very often it was actually their own hair made into a wig. People who couldn't afford wigs tried to make their hair look like a wig.

vanity as humans that we tend to think of evolution as a process that, in effect, was programmed to produce us.

Their wives, lavishly rouged and powdered, looked as if they had just come from a coffin fitting.