Quotes About Vanity

The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.

That prisoner of society's world, That sacrifice to vanity, The blind slave of custom, That small-souled being isn't you.

To you the offering of this thought, The greeting of my poetry, To you this work of solitude, O slaves of din and vanity. In silence did my sad sigh name You Cecily's unmet by me, All of you Psyches without wings, Mute sisters of my soul! God grant you, unknown family, One sacred dream mid sinful lies, In the prison of this narrow life Just one brief burst of that other life.

Julia Carey] had never, even when very young, experienced a desire to sit at the feet of superior wisdom, always greatly preferring a chair of her own. She seldom did wrong, in her own opinion, because the moment she entertained an idea it at once became right, her vanity serving as a pair of blinders to keep her from seeing the truth.

It's the ones who can't let go - of fear or anger, lust or greed, vanity or pride or power - who are most at risk of becoming corrupted.

Nothing can be more slightly defined than the line of demarcation between sanity and insanity ... Make the definition too narrow, it becomes meaningless; make it too wide, and the whole human race becomes involved in the dragnet. In strictness we are all mad when we give way to passion, to prejudice, to vice, to vanity; but if all the passionate, prejudiced and vain people were to be locked up as lunatics, who is to keep the key to the asylum?" (Editorial, The Times , 22 July 1853)

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

Let's stay young forever. Young, stupid, and pretty. Sounds like a plan, don't you think?

Despite what I said before, it had not been a fear of infecting other people or poor health that had stopped me from going, but vanity. It was a good lesson.

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

Japan is like a young woman who thinks too much of herself. She's bound to get herself into trouble.

Thus Buddha told the boddhisatva: the myriad phenomena are vanity, the absence of phenomena is also vanity.

She reached into an alabaster box and pulled out a violet cigarette that also exactly matched her eyes. Some people just don't know when to quit. She lit her colored coffin nail, set it into an ashtray, and promptly forgot about it. It smoldered into eternity silently begging for one more touch from her gorgeous lips.

Glory is an empty plate to feed from.

Self aggrandizement is the most worthy and agreeable of sovereigns' occupations," the king wrote to the Marquis de Villars in 1688.7

Krampus found me, forced me into servitude—me, the son of Odin, a slave to a low-cast demon. I did not care, did not feel. Hollow of heart and soul, I came to believe this to be my fate, my penance, that I had been spared to bear torment not just for my own vanity and arrogance, but for that of all my forebears.

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

showing off is the fools's idea of glory.

He has not observed on the nature of vanity who does not know that it is omnivorous--that it has no choice in its food--that it is fond to talk even of its own faults and vices, as what will excite surprise and draw attention, and what will pass at worst for openness and candor.

A)ll mortal greatness is but disease.

Sin embargo, a la mañana siguiente, al despertarme, me surgieron las dudas -de alguna manera, con el sueño, se me habían pasado los humos de la vanidad-. Uno de los momentos más serenos y acertados que tiene un hombre es justo por la mañana, al despertarse.

Çünkü asl?nda hiçbir ÅŸey gelmiyordu ÅŸairin elinden, hiçbir kötülüÄŸün ortadan kald?r?lmas?na yard?mc? olam?yordu; yaln?zca dünyay? ihtiÅŸama boÄŸup yücelttiÄŸinde kulak veriliyordu ona, yoksa olduÄŸu haliyle anlatt???nda deÄŸil. Sadece yalan, ünün ta kendisiydi, yoksa bilgi deÄŸil

Now it happened that this Candaules was in love with his own wife; and not only so, but thought her the fairest woman in the whole world. This fancy had strange consequences.

It was tied with a Windsor knot. Bond mistrusted anyone who tied his tie with a Windsor knot. It showed too much vanity. It was often the mark of a cad. Bond decided to forget his prejudice.