Shalom Harlow Quotes

Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that.

Vanity is but the surface.

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

I think male actors get confused by their own vanity.

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all.

I've always been a narcissist.

I got too caught up in Hollywood, being so into myself and my image.

I'm too conceited for therapy.

A lot of self-importance goes on in the fashion industry. I'm not like that.

If you see a man who is so obviously impressed with his own appearance, then you wonder what his priorities are.

An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.

I have been vain since birth.

Being in the world of fashion you have to be very self-absorbed, and you are surrounded by people who are very self-absorbed.

For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.

Nothing ages as poorly as a beautiful woman's ego.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.

I never want to be that person again, that Vanity.

I'm vain.

Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.

Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.

A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.

Vanity, indeed, is the very antidote to conceit; for while the former makes us all nerve to the opinion of others, the latter is perfectly satisfied with its opinion of itself.

Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth; and, at fifty-four, was still a very fine man. Few women could think more of their personal appearance than he did, nor could the valet of any new made lord be more delighted with the place he held in society. He considered the blessing of beauty as inferior only to the blessing of a baronetcy; and the Sir Walter Elliott, who united these gifts, was the constant object of his warmest respect and devotion.

All I ask of Life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own importance.

There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain.