Vanity Quotes

Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion.

I'm brilliant as well as skilled, " he said modestly. "It's a great burden, all of that on top of my angelic good looks. But I try to soldier on as best I can.

But who bothers looking beyond the surface? Who even knows anything about Cinderella's Prince Charming - other than he's a handsome prince?

But I begin to fancy you don't like me. How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me. (Catherine Linton, nee Earnshaw)

No matter what the circumstances, no man can completely escape from vanity.

It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their deficiencies than of their available gifts.

I would have chosen any other than this for my prison. A rhinoceros is as ugly as a human being, and it too is going to die, but at least it never thinks that it is beautiful.

You'll forgive the flowery talk, won't you? Our family does so love to be told they are beautiful. Vanity is an old and venerable habit.

All these handsome guys are the same. When they're done combing their goddam hair, they beat it on you.

One quick glance in the mirror is enough for a lifetime.

It is vanity to chase the whirlwind.

Of all the weaknesses that beset a man, vanity is the most deadly. For through vanity can a wise man turn to folly.

Vanity dulls the senses.

Vanity is a defensive quality. it contains an element of fear.

Those who are vain have little ability to feel grateful.

I just don't get it. You've been in love with this bloke since you were a kid, and he's never once got his hair cut short enough that it doesn't poke him in the damn eye.

The cemetery was vanity transmogrified into stone. Instead of growing more sensible in death, the inhabitants of the cemetery were sillier than they had been in life.

Sorry we’re late. Liam had to make sure his hair fell just right.

Why do you chase the wind?

Everyone thinks they're living in end times. Everyone thinks their life is meaningless. It makes vanity easy.

Vain until the bitter end.

Doesn't matter how pretty you are. What's important is how pretty you feel. No one feels pretty when they hear "no" often enough.

There are many people in the world who are running after vanity. They are striving after things that the Lord is not building.

Humility is the only defence against vanity

She seemed to be lovely still to herself, as if no amount of looking into mirrors could ruin her illusion.

Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It’s a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

All success in life comes to naught if it is laced with vanity.

The World will give you hopeless vanity, but what will you give the World?

But the vain man did not hear him. Vain men never hear anything but praise.

I believe the secret of the success of psychoanalysis resides in people's vanity.

He wil sooner lose his best friend, then his least jest.

My intellect was my greatest vanity.

I cried because I was so beautiful.

Mirror Mirror on the Wall, Who's fairest of them all?I'm Mona Lisa and She is plain, But the truth is - we all are Vain.

Hairspray and blusher, eyelash curlers, eye-shadow palettes the size of tea-trays. Even before they left school it was as if they were already rehearsing for some witless kind of womanhood.

How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is the personal object of a divine plan?