Quotes About Vanity

I thought—at some level of my being, I actually thought—that I could go back to the beginning and change things. That I could make the blood flow backwards. I had the vanity to imagine—even if I didn't put it more strongly than this—that I could make Veronica like me again, and that it was important to do so.

Ya me lo dirá usted. Gustave desconfiaba de los sentimientos; le tenía miedo al amor; y elevó su neurosis a la categoría de credo artístico. La vanidad de Gustave no era únicamente literaria

Qué vanidad tan curiosa es la que impulsa al presente a esperar que el pasado se amamante de él.

All the shiny surfaces reflected the other shiny surfaces, as though the house was in love with itself and couldn't stop winking and preening.

But you'd sell your soul for it, wouldn't you? For one day of feeling beautiful.

Como era tan presumida como hermosa, si no se veía adorada, se sentía como desdeñada. Parecía convencida de que, si se rendía de amor ante alguien, se rebajaba.

People are always talking about advancement and success, but going to Tokyo and living a vain, frivolous life wasn't advancement; it wasn't success.

I selected a simple but graceful gown with a sage-colored organza overdress and a seed-pearl choker, hoping that I had chosen well, and I swept my hair up with long, pearl-dotted pins from a small ivory box on the vanity.

Their whole life, they're the center of attention. People want to be around them just because they're attractive. Their jokes are funnier. Their lives are better. And then suddenly, they get bags under their eyes or they put on a little weight and no one cares about

The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.

There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.

A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others.

Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it.

Death alone discloses how insignificant are the puny bodies of men.

Only death reveals what a nothing the body of man is.

The fame of the rich man dies with him; the fame of the treasure, and not of the man who possessed it, remains.

Where would the power of women be, were it not for the vanity of men?

Some men mistake generosity for charity: these flatter themselves that they are giving gratuitously, whilst they are merely rewarding secret services offered their vanity.

When we play the part of a great man too much, we seem very small.

A man is nothing but breath and shadow.

He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of men.

I think that they haven't been able to perfect a good facelift for a man.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.