Lex Luger Quotes

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

When we are young we do not look into mirrors. It is when we are old, concerned with our name, our legend, what our lives will mean to the future. We become vain with the names we own, our claims to have been the first eyes, the strongest army, the cleverest merchant. It is when he is old that Narcissus wants a graven image of himself.

My desire is to let go of my ego and let in His direction.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

And I think that when I finally decided to let go and let God and allow that to happen, I became a lot more successful than I could have done if I had planned it all myself.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

My ego and my vanities have nothing to do with comedy.

If someone was like, 'Describe yourself in one word,' I would never say, 'Handsome.'

Vanity destroys your work. That's the one thing you have to let go of as an actor. I don't care how sexy or beautiful any woman is. At the end of the day, she has to take her makeup off. At the end of the day, she's more than just pretty.

Vanity is not important to me.

To surrender your ego, you have to have one first.

You know what keeps me humble? Mirrors!

There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.

I still look good, though.

It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love.

What mortal is there of us, who would find his satisfaction enhanced by an opportunity of comparing the picture he presents to himself of his doings, with the picture they make on the mental retina of his neighbours? We are poor plants buoyed up by the air-vessels of our own conceit.

As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.

The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.

Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face – there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being able to see it, and of not being able to stare into his own eyes. Only in the water of rivers and ponds could he look at his face. And the very posture he had to assume was symbolic. He had to bend over, stoop down, to commit the ignominy of beholding himself. The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.

In my more pompous moments I like to think of myself as a writer rather than a humorist, but I suppose that's merely the vanity of advancing age.

I wonder if the course of narcissism through the ages would have been any different had Narcissus first peered into a cesspool. He probably did.

One can never outlive one's vanity.

I cannot raise my worth too high; Of what vast consequence am I! "Not of the importance you suppose," Replies a Flea upon his nose; "Be humble, learn thyself to scan; Know, pride was never made for man.

The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.