Quotes and Sayings about Vanity

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

Vanity is my favourite sin.

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

She warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within.

Every girl is beautiful. Sometimes it just takes the right guy to see it.

She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul.

Like so many things, it's not what is outside, but what is inside that counts.

That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.

He called you pretty... That's practically an insult, the way you look right now... You're much more than beautiful.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Women need to be beautiful to be loved by men, and stupid enough to love them.

But it's hard to stay mad, when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls

Recently I was driving my daughter to school and she said to me: "Mama, I'm the ugliest girl I know. I look like a boy with long hair.' And my brain went to 'Oh my god, you're six. Where is this coming from? Who said this? Can I kick a sex-year-old's ass?' But I didn't say anything and instead I went home and I made a PowerPoint presentation for her and in that presentation were androgynous rock stars and artists that live their truth, are probably made fun of every day of their life and carry on and wave their flag and inspire the rest of us. And these are artists like Michael Jackson and David Bowie and Freddie Mercury and Annie Lennox and Prince and Janis Joplin and George Michael, Elton John. So many artists, her eyes glazed over. But then I said, 'I really want to know why you feel this way about yourself?' And she said 'Well, I look like a boy.' I said, 'What do you think I look like?' And she said, 'You're beautiful.' And I was like, 'Well, thanks!' But I said, 'When people make fun of me, that's what they use. They say that I look like a boy, or I'm too masculine or I have too many opinions, my body is too strong. Do you see me growing my hair?' She said, 'No, Mama.' I said, 'Do you see me changing my body?"
'No, Mama."
'Do you see me changing the way I present myself to the world?"
'No, Mama."
'Do you see me selling out arenas all over the world?"
'Yes, Mama."
So baby-girl, we don't change. We take the gravel and the shell and we make a pearl and we help other people to change, so that they can see more kinds of beauty. And to all the artists here, I'm so inspired by all of you. Thank you for being your true selves and for lighting the way for us. I'm so inspired by you guys. There's so much rad happening right now in music. Keep doing it. Keep shining for the rest of us to see. And you, my darling girl, are beautiful and I love you.

Feeling beautiful has nothing to do with what you look like - I promise!

It's sad when girls think they don't have anything going on except being pretty.

My definition of beauty is happiness. I believe that when you are happy, it shines through and makes you a more attractive and beautiful person!

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.

Never let pride be your guiding principle! Let your accomplishments speak for you.

If pride gives us pause, my love, then perhaps we have lived long enough already.

People confuse ego, lust, insecurity with true love.

I hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I'd done myself. Race pride is kind of stupid.

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.

Sometimes we have to let go of our pride and do what is requested of us.

Only love creates things that are alive and last, pride is fruitless, because it knows only itself.

People complain about my exclamation points, but I honestly think that's the way people think. I don't think people think in essays; it's one exclamation point to another.

Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.

Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.

You mean well, but leave me be
Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free

It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.

I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.

One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.

To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.

Who's the more foolish? The fool or the fool who follows him?

I fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots.

Don't do drugs, don't have unprotected sex, don't be violent... leave that to me.