Vanity Quotes - Page 2

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

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.

Don't be carried away by beauty, for the faeces also stays in the rectum of ravishing faces, and their private life is not beautiful as their public life...fear beauty!

But you are too lovely even to care to be kind as others are.

Beauty is nothing without brains & heart.

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.

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

But a man's beauty represents inner, functional truths: his face shows what he can do. And what is that compared to the magnificent uselessness of a woman's face? Mersault was aware of this now, delighting in his vanity and smiling at his secret demons.

If lighthouse becomes a burning candle,
flickered upon ocean's insanity.
Your sailing heart there anchors to handle
the obsessed breeze towards sand dune's vanity.

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.

It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.

The courageous testimony of Dr. Faust that a maiden's smile is more precious than history, philosophy, education, religion, law, politics,economics, and all the other branches of learning. Learning is another name for vanity. It is the effort of human beings not to be human beings.

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.

He knows how to market himself well. Nowadays, that's all that seems to count. He's rebellious in a way that appeals to people with vain, shallow taste. So of course he manipulates his audiences with the blessing of his recording company and the financial investors behind his brand.

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.

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.

The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down!

Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.