Quotes about Vanity

He is a king over all the children of pride.

Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me.

Walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet.

The fashion of this world passeth away.

I would not live alway: let me alone: for my days are vanity.

Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.

I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I'm doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.

She has not one particle of vanity in her. She covers her scars because they disturb others. No other reason than that. People see the mark of the lion on her. They fail to see what it means.

A pretty face and a beautiful body blind a man more quickly than any poker through the eyes.

He knew that beauty faded quickly when embodied by selfishness...

The obligations of normal human kindness—chesed, as the Hebrew has it—that we all owe. But there's a kind of vanity in thinking you can nurse the world. There's a kind of vanity in goodness.

This is that conquest of the world and of ourselves, which has been always considered as the perfection of human nature; and this is only to be obtained by fervent prayer, steady resolutions, and frequent retirement from folly and vanity, from the cares of avarice, and the joys of intemperance, from the lulling sounds of deceitful flattery, and the tempting sight of prosperous wickedness.