Quotes about Vanity
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
— Edmund Burke
Beauty's sister is vanity, and its daughter lust.
— Anonymous
All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.
— Anonymous
Surely every man walketh in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
— Anonymous
Every man at his best state is altogether vanity.
— Anonymous
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
— Anonymous
He is a king over all the children of pride.
— Anonymous
Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me.
— Anonymous
Walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet.
— Anonymous
The fashion of this world passeth away.
— Anonymous
I would not live alway: let me alone: for my days are vanity.
— Anonymous
Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.
— Anonymous