Vanity Quotes

In luck or out the toil has left its mark: That old perplexity an empty purse, Or the day's vanity, the night's remorse.

Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.

Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action.

Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard.

Vanity does not refer to the opinion a man entertains of himself, but to that which he wishes others to entertain of him.

We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any other person's.

If any one phrase could gather its (religion's) universal message, that phrase would be, - All is not vanity in this Universe, whatever the appearances may suggest.

A vain man is a nauseous creature: he is so full of himself that he has no room for anything else, be it never so good or deserving.

There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.

It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber.

I've personally never wanted to be 'the babe', and refuse to let vanity get in the way of my acting because I don't see my job as being a beautiful person.

Nothing should be so greatly feared as empty fame.

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.

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

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.

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

Why should he watch the hideous corruption of his soul?

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

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.

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.

Social media has infected the world with a sickening virus called vanity.

Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you.

Vanity is man's love affair with himself.

Glory of the world makes life meaningless. Glory of God fulfills it.

If you reflect on death, you find the vanity of life.

I Am In Love With Myself, With My Heart.

When you are in a room with Kurtis, whether its one or a hundred he is the only person that matters.

Beware ! Heart is too small to feel happy but soul is too big to take glory

Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.

We must turn from worthless things towards faith in God.

@bobbybaird i'm a writer, so are you. we try to compose our thoughts and words for effect as well as sense. vain of us? a bit.

Foolish men always believe that a little knowledge will give them control over the world, but it is no more than a display of their vanity.

A man's vanity often goes hand in hand with his lack of knowledge.

Beware ! Discipline goes to two different directions : success and self glory. Self glory is the biggest failure of life.

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

It is not reputation, fame, success or religiosity that glorifies God, it's slavery.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.

Women that can work a camera with ease often work men just as effortlessly for both require the same commitment to vanity and manipulation.

The chase of the whirlwind is vanity.

You are not told that while you try to eliminate your boredom by playing games and chatting on social media or watching movies and making unnecessary phone calls your life is diminishing into vanity.

Your time keeps flying away into vanity while you dine with your distractions. Your life keeps diminishing while you waste your time feeding your distractions.

Your time keeps flying away into vanity while you dine with your distractions.

To prevent your time from just melting into vanity, you must race against time and stand in the way of time so you could convert it to tangible products.

To allow your time evaporate each day without a product to show for it is to allow your life evaporate into vanity.

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

You must intercept the passing time well, hence it will fly away into vanity.

Vanity's contribution to Fiction in general was an abundance of cheap labour and the occasional blockbuster, which was accepted into Fiction with an apologetic 'gosh, don't know how that happened'.

When the world shifts its focus on heart over mind, we will finally experience a beautiful global village for our children.