Quotes About Vanity

If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.

Boris Johnson has only ever cared about Boris Johnson.

Vanity was a joke. She was an image created to make money.

The world's a bubble and the life of man Less than a span.

De qué sirve presumir, rosal, de buen parecer, si aun no acabas de nacer cuando empiezas a morir?

no me atrevo a mirarme en los espejos, por si es verdad que no tengo oreja, y me peino el pelo para ese lado, por ocultar lo que no sé si no existe." Fragmento de: Francisco Umbral. "La belleza convulsa". iBooks.

Vanity makes us do more things against inclination than reason.

É irracional desejar a fama póstuma, pois as pessoas que de facto se recordam de nós também morreram e o nosso nome depressa passa a ser conhecido apenas por académicos especialistas e antiquários. Para além disso, de que serve tentar impressionar a posteridade – são pessoas que nunca vamos conhecer. O que valerá a sua opinião?

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.

During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.

That is why I believe that this coterie of vain mandarins and cowardly politicians stained the honor of my country forever, and I will never forgive them.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

In order to discredit faith and seduce believers, Kant does not hesitate to appeal to pride or vanity: whoever does not rely on reason alone is a "minor" who refuses to "grow up"; if men allow themselves to be led by "authorities" instead of "thinking for themselves," it is solely through laziness and cowardice, neither more nor less. A thinker who needs to make use of such means — which on the whole are demagogic — must indeed be short of serious arguments.

Dieu permet parfois des faiblesses afin de pouvoir susciter ensuite — moyennant le contraste entre ces infirmités accidentelles et l'être essentiel — des vertus d'autant plus profondes. Les qualités qui ont poussé dans l'engrais de quelque misère sont comme douées de conscience : elles connaissent toute la vanité de l'erreur d'une manière concrète.

You think a 'lord' in front of your name is going to make that face any less ugly?

All it comes down to is this: I feel like shit but look great.

For reasons of my own I take note of the way people act when they're around mirrors.

Men are often childish and vain, although they deny it. - Marianne Falk

Je suis une âme en peine, une femme de trente ans, nerveuse, malheureuse, qui n'a pas les dérivatifs des hommes: passades, voyages, affaire, vanité, ambition.

Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave.

there is scarce any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself

the pleasures of the world are chiefly folly, and the business of it mostly knavery, and both nothing better than vanity; the men of pleasure tearing one another to pieces from the emulation of spending money, and the men of business from envy in getting it.

but doth not the person who expends vast sums in the furniture of his house or the ornaments of his person, who consumes much time and employs great pains in dressing himself, or who thinks himself paid for self-denial, labour, or even villany, by a title or a ribbon, sacrifice as much to vanity as the poor wit who is desirous to read you his poem or his play?

To live only to suffer—only to feel the injury of life repeated and enlarged—it seemed to her she was too valuable, too capable, for that. Then she wondered if it were vain and stupid to think so well of herself. When had it even been a guarantee to be valuable? Wasn't all history full of the destruction of precious things? Wasn't it much more probable that if one were fine one would suffer?