Vanity Quotes

Vanity might be a "sin" according to some lights, but he thought in measured doses it was one of life's allowable simple pleasures. It helped everyone get through their days.

And in the sin of wantingalways to be right, the punishmentis knowing it isn't possible.

There are times when Pride must transform into Vanity in order to reach the astray echo of the reflection of self.

If You Think that Everyone Swindles You, You are a Selfish Person

The devil…the prowde spirite…cannot endure to be mocked.

The stupidest people suddenly become a little cleverer when we learn that they think well of us

Ecclesiastes would be quite unbearable were it not for Heavens eternity and its citizens". ~R. Alan Woods [2013]

I had only four hairs worth shaving, but I managed to inflict five cuts attempting to remove them.

Respect everybody you meet either Rich or Poor | Cute or Ugly | Locally or Internationally | Famous or Infamous.. afterall we're all sand

Pride is a wound, and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open the wound again and again. In men, it seldom heals and often grows septic.

Mans vanity transgresses death

While many people are proud of being self-made, it only explains all the flaws.

Consider an achievement accidental if it is not coupled with modesty. Because if the achiever had endeavoured for it, it would certainly have killed their pride.

When you build a fence around yourself, you'll wonder why people are afraid to approach you, because the pride in the fence is the cause of your blindness.

He who despises himself, nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser. (Nietz

A dead man’s vanity: his ashes full of life that cannot be deceased before a living being’s pride.

At the end of the day, if pride is your greatest strength, turn it into vanity.

You rely on your speed too much. A young man's vanity. An old man learns to absorb pain and wait for an opportunity.

Alas, my being the James Bond of vampires isn't the whole issue. Vanity must wait.

I've loved many women...I'm not going to lie to you, but it never works...vanity always gets in the way.

She was not vain enough to work her will against the world. But she could use the things the world had given her.

Smile is the vainest thing you can wear without costing you anything

If only we studied the stars as much as we study our own reflections.

We think we are being interesting to others when we are being interesting to ourselves.

I'm pretty much a goddess around here.

By aggrandizing one's own abilities and achievements, the grandiose person remains out of touch with who they truly are and as such, remains prone to crossing the boundaries of others.

Don't try to create the world in your image-that was God's mistake.

Not very tall, not very dark but very...very handsome, ’ was his way of describing himself.

Gracious Providence, to whom I owe all my powers, why didst thou not withhold some of those blessings I possess, and substitute in their place a feeling of self-confidence and contentment?

No-one loves another More than he loves whatever another within may haveThat is part of one's self

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

you'll never see my books on Vanity Fair I'm not the type of author they would want there

Trying to be offensive for the sole purpose of being offensive should always deem one the least offensive of offenders.

Beware of that demon called 'Changing The World'.

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.

One Must Choose Among Both Parties Either To Be A Wise Man That Die To Live In Righteousness And Blissfulness For Eternity Or Be A Foolish Man That Lives To Die For Vanity.

Love is responsible for nearly every kind of insanity in the world though greed, vanity, and pure meanness contribute their portion to general misery.

He framed a question inwardly to his vanity: 'Will this be tougher than I thought?

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

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.

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

Virtue was vanity dressed up and waiting for applause.

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Social Media is a shared delusion of grandeur.

Fame is vanity's bait.

But how can anyone put a bridle on man's vanity and arrogance? But how can Purity walk the earth without covering her feet with mud?

The physical vanity of the diet-and-exercise obsessive is recast as the pursuit of a kind of ritual purity, hedged about with taboos and guilt trips and mysticized by yoga.

The true business of the philosopher, though not flattering to his vanity, is merely to ascertain, arrange and condense the facts.

Praise is a very used, but always new, of surrendering to vanity

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.