639 Quotes About Vanity

Outrage without action is nothing but vanity.

We're all stupid, chasing after vanity!" ... "Really, it comes from idleness! Everything's near, everything's close at hand, yet we run to some far-off kingdom. Is it not life, if one is occupied, be it even in a remote corner? The pleasure indeed consists in labor. And nothing's sweeter than the fruit of one's own labors . . .

All life is vain. But even to have lived in vain is beautiful.

Indulged almost from the hour of her birth; endowed not only with beauty but with a considerable independence as well; encouraged to think herself a matrimonial prize of the first stare, Tiffany had come to regard every unattached man’s homage as her due.

Some people love attention so much that they usually wish for their rhetorical question to be answered.

Weißt du, was in dieser WeltMir am meisten wohlgefällt?Daß die Zeit sich selbst verzehretUnd die Welt nicht ewig währet.

Spirituality destroys the ego. Religion strengthens it.

The power of female vanity should never be underestimated.

The question ‘How are you (doing)?’ is the most common way of indirectly saying ‘Ask me how I am (doing)’.