Quotes About Vanity

And she was quite tolerable to look at, you say?" said Mr Lascelles. "You never saw her?" said Drawlight. "Oh! she was a heavenly creature. Quite divine. An angel." "Indeed? And such a pinched-looking ruin of a thing now! I shall advise all the good-looking women of my acquaintance not to die," said Mr Lascelles.

But to professional humility and a genuine admiration of the York society Mr. Robinson added a happy vanity that these monumental brains must now cease their pondering on esoteric matters for a time and listen to him.

She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.

Mirrors can kill and talk, they are terrible rooms

If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter—for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.…

But Doctor Gordon wasn't like that at all. He was young and good-looking, and I could see right away he was conceited.

Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?

The majority of mankind is lazy-minded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith.

The majority of mankind is lazy-minded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith; and when the ordinary man calls himself a sceptic or an unbeliever, that is ordinarily a simple pose, cloaking a disinclination to think anything out to a conclusion. (Introduction to Pascal's Pensées)

Boys worry just as much about their looks as girls do. We only hide it better.

You could not resist the bait, this reputation of mine. It inflamed your vanity, Cyrion. As you reputation inflames mine. Jealousy. You must destroy the wicked Hasmun and his wax, and rule alone the cities of the coast. Eh, my honey? And I must and will destroy Cyrion.

He continued to stand, as if in thought or vanity, before the arresting reflection of himself. But he had grown, unaccountably pale.

Monsters don't die early; they hang on long. Awfully long. Their vanity's infinite, almost as infinite as their disgust with themselves.

'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science, people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It's bizarre.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

Vanity in a newspaper man is like perfume on a whore; they use it to fend off a dark whiff of themselves.

don't waste your time being impressed by people (usually men) who are already adequately impressed by themselves.

I think it is vanity to want to put into a story anything but the story itself.

Y los gestos del amor, ese dulce museo, esa galería de figuras de humo. Consuélese tu vanidad: la mano de Antonio buscó lo que busca tu mano, y ni aquélla ni la tuya buscaban nada que ya no hubiera sido encontrado desde la eternidad. Pero las cosas invisibles necesitan encarnarse, las ideas caen a la tierra como palomas muertas.

Sus conquistas son como un sueño, las olvida al despertar cuando los aplausos lo traen de vuelta, a él que anda tan lejos viviendo su cuarto de hora de minuto y medio.

Sí, cenizas de la nada, le contesté yo. - Ni cenizas siquiera dijo el hombre. Ya ni los sueños quedan...

It is just such women, selfish, sweet, false, that entice fools.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

In art vanity is equally fatal to sympathetic feeling, whether on the part of the artist or the public.