Vanity Quotes

Vanity Quote of the day

Let him have all the perfections in the world, I think it ought not to be set down as certain that a man must be acceptable to every woman he may happen to like himself.

Vanity dies hard, in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

I felt how much better and more dignified it was for me to show off the finer side of my soul than of my body.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

Why should he watch the hideous corruption of his soul?

Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.

To avoid a comparative poverty, which her affection and her society would have deprived of all its horrors, I have, by raising myself to affluence, lost everything that could make it a blessing.

Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.

Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.

But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

The charm of fame is so great, that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

Nothing should be so greatly feared as empty fame.

Difficulty is a coin which the learned conjure with so as not to reveal the vanity of their studies and which human stupidity is keen to accept in payment

Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled

Gertrude, behind her, again had just one... That one little feather she had as a starter. But now that's enough, because now she is smarter.

Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

Besides, nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.

The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.

Mirrors are dangerous things. They can just as easily tell us what we don't like as what we do. Yet in truth you can't tell anything from a reflection, as a reflection is actually empty.

However anxious one is to reach one’s goal, one can excuse delays on the route when these are caused by ovations.

Life may be scaryBut it’s only temporary.And this is perhaps the most comforting conclusion to be reached if one discounts the possibility of meaning.from: Antinatalism A Thought Experiment

If I'd been born ugly, you'd never have heard of Pelé.

Life may be scaryBut it’s only temporary.And this is perhaps the most comforting conclusion to be reached if one discounts the possibility of meaning.

You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by hearing the master pieces which have been produced at different periods.

This life is full of vanity

What's the matter with you, Penny? You're not as good looking as you generally believe you are.

What if this is a horrible mistake?" I croaked. "Oh, it'll be horrible fine, just a bunch of pretentious rich people with shelves of expensive books they've never read.

Mr Moss's courtyard is railed in like a cage, lest the gentlemen who are boarding with him should take a fancy to escape from his hospitality.

Even eighty-odd is sometimes vulnerable to vanity.

For as love is oftentimes won with beauty, so it is not kept, preserved, and continued, but by virtue and obedience.

She raised herself up on an elbow, stroked my forehead & said in a hushed half-whisper, 'You will be famous.' "The seed was planted. Ambition fed on the compost of my vanity.

The false face had been handsome, yes, but consciously so. As though he was too aware of his own attractivensss, something she found distinctly unappealing.

The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.

Kingdom of God will surely come upon someone if glory of man leaves him

Sweet wine makes drunk, sour wine (insult) is "tetelestai". Life is not about what we have done and become, but how God to be fully glorified.

Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said more than three thousand years ago.

I won't tolerate vanity in a man, though I will in a woman.

Agatha: "If you say anything smug or stuck-up or shallow, I'll have Reaper follow you home."Sophie: "But then I can't talk!

Do not live for emptiness, do not waste your evaporating life pursuing the vanities of life.

Vanity does not pay the bills.

Whatever we have in the glory of man is "away". Those are just not enough before we go "home" to the glory of God.

If I really seem vain, it is that I am only vain in my ways—not in my heart. The worst women are those vain in their hearts, and not in their ways.

She was the most alone person he had ever met - so intent on staying forever breathtaking that she could never let any of life's glories take her own breath away.

This world is all vanity. It is a tempest hurling us from one sorrow to another.

Those who seek enjoyment in life are the ones that think that the world is a playground.