Quotes About Vanity

A headstrong maid, that she is-and won't listen to no advice at all. Pride and vanity have ruined many a cobbler's dog.

That's a handsome maid, he said to Oak. But she has her faults, said Gabriel. True, farmer. And the greatest of them is—well, what it is always. Beating people down? ay, 'tis so. O no. What, then? Gabriel, perhaps a little piqued by the comely traveller's indifference, glanced back to where he had witnessed her performance over the hedge, and said, Vanity.

I look into my glass, And view my wasting skin, And say, 'Would God it came to pass My heart had shrunk as thin!

She suddenly thought one afternoon, when looking in the glass at her fairness, that there was yet another date, of greater importance to her than those; that of her own death, when all these charms would have disappeared; a day which lay sly and unseen and among all the other days of the year, giving no sign or sound when she annually passed over it; but not the less surely there. When was it? Why did she not feel the chill of each yearly encounter with such a cold relation?

É uma moça muito bonita", disse ele a Oak. "Mas tem seus defeitos", comentou Gabriel. ââ'¬Å"É verdade, fazendeiro." "E o maior deles é — bem, o de sempre." "Regatear? Sim, é mesmo." "Ah, não." "O que é, então?" Gabriel, talvez um pouco ressentido pela indiferença da viajante, olhou para onde havia testemunhado a atuação dela pela cerca e disse: "Vaidade.

looking-glasses for the pretty, and lying books for the wicked.

Don't think you can persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.

Denn das Glück, sagte er sich, ist nicht, geliebt zu werden; das ist mit Ekel gemischte Genugtuung für die Eitelkeit. Das Glück ist, zu lieben und vielleicht kleine, trügerische Annäherungen an den geliebten Gegenstand zu erhaschen.

For happiness, he told himself, isn't being loved; that was just a slightly nauseous satisfaction of vanity. Happiness is loving and perhaps seizing a few short illusory moments of intimacy with the object of one's love.

Era la sonrisa de Narciso al inclinarse sobre el agua.

La vanidad no es algo grande y la grandeza no puede por tanto ser vanidosa .

Si vantano di ciò che dovrebbero vergognarsi, e ostentano ciò che dovrebbero nascondere.

But beauty, too, is never perfected and for that very reason incites to vanity; for beauty works hard to achieve what it finds lacking in its own self-imposed ideal - yet another error, for beauty's secret actually consists in the attraction that comes from imperfection.

Pride makes us artificial; humility makes us real

In humility is the greatest freedom. As soon as you begin to take yourself seriously and imagine that your virtues are important because they are yours, you become the prisoner of your own vanity and even your best works will blind and deceive you. Then, in order to defend yourself, you will begin to see sins and faults everywhere in the actions of other[s].

Ruins he goes daily to look in are each a sermon on vanity.

identified as the premier "consumer advocate." Yet one of Nader's first published writings, in The Nation magazine in 1959, revealed the mind-set behind consumer advocacy when he said, "the consumer must be protected at times from his own indiscretion and vanity."28 Once again, the role of the anointed was to preempt other people's decisions, for their own good.

What is it with me? Am I absolutely nobody, but merely inordinately vain? I do not know…. But I am most fearfully unhappy. That is all. I am so unhappy that I wish I was dead—yet I should be mad to die when I have not yet lived at all.

Even then I'd begun to think—and to push away the thought—that committing oneself to being fashionable was simultaneously committing oneself to being perishable.

It could be argued that all perfume is born out of shame; a self-consciousness of our natural odour.

glass, madam. He looks to see his own face, not

Good hair day. Bad hair day. Dead hair day.

Those who shouldn't are often those who most willingly flaunt it.

I could announce one morning that the world was going to blow up in three hours and people would be calling in about my hair!