Quotes about Vanity

Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction.

Pride goes before destruction.

He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of men.

All the windy ways of men Are but dust that rises up, And is lightly laid again.

I consider it an indubitable mark of mean-spiritedness and pitiful vanity to court applause from the pen or tongue of man.

A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing.

Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!

I clearly saw the skeleton underneath all this show of personality what is left of a man and all his pride but bones?

Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession.

All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.

It is because the Spirit of Christ, is not the one only thing that is the Desire of their Hearts; and therefore their Learning only Works in, and with the Spirit of this World, and becomes itself, no small Part of the Vanity of Vanities.