Quotes About Vanity

I have given away my whole soul to some one who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day.

Ashes to ashes. Dust to nonsignificance.

What do you believe? I believe that the last and the first suffer equally. Pari passu. Equally? It is not alone in the dark of death that all souls are one soul. Of what would you repent? Nothing. Nothing? One thing. I spoke with bitterness about my life and I said that I would take my own part against the slander of oblivion and against the monstrous facelessness of it and that I would stand a stone in the very void where all would read my name. Of that vanity I recant all.

When we're all gone at last then there'll be nobody here but death and his days will be numbered too. He'll be out in the road there with nothing to do and nobody to do it to. He'll say: where did everybody go? And that's how it will be. What's wrong with that?

Can't stop what's coming. Ain't no waiting on you. That's vanity.

La vanidad del hombre podrá ser infinita pero su saber sigue siendo imperfecto y por más que valore sus juicios llegará un momento en que tendrá que someterlos al arbitrio de una instancia superior. Y

Every word we speak is a vanity. Every breath taken that does not bless is an affront. Bear closely with me now. There is another who will hear what you never spoke. Stones themselves are made of air. What they have power to crush never lived. In the end we shall all of us be only what we have made of God. For nothing is real save his grace.

For the world was made new each day and it was only men's clinging to its vanished husks that could make of that world one husk more.

You humans love mirrors. You have to constantly make sure you still have the same face. Nothing scares you more than if someone changes it.

In terms of his personality," Shvets added, "the guy is not a complicated cookie, his most important characteristics being low intellect coupled with hyperinflated vanity. This combination makes him a dream for an experienced recruiter.

Trump was a dream for KGB officers looking to develop an asset," Shvets told me. "Everybody has weaknesses. But with Trump it wasn't just weakness. Everything was excessive. His vanity, excessive. Narcissism, excessive. Greed, excessive. Ignorance, excessive.

it was all nothing, a wonderful display of nothingness. At the same time a display. A display! a display! a display!

Morel fell into a slow ruin. His body, which had been beautiful in movement and in being, shrank, did not seem to ripen with the years, but to get mean and rather despicable.

My lad, she said, they're very wise. They know they've only got to flatter your vanity, and you press up to them like a dog that has its head scratched. Well, they can't go on scratching for ever, he replied. And when they've done, I trot away. But one day you'll find a string round your neck, that you can't pull off, she answered.

We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.

Cuando tratamos con la gente debemos recordar que no tratamos con criaturas lógicas. Tratamos con criaturas emotivas, criaturas erizadas de prejuicios e impulsadas por el orgullo y la vanidad.

Cuando tratamos con personas, recordemos que no estamos tratando con criaturas lógicas. Estamos tratando con seres de emoción, seres humanos erizados de prejuicios, y motivados por el orgullo y la vanidad.

Nada há que eu necessite tanto como estímulos para minha vaidade".

Looking at oneself in a mirror is a self-canceling phenomenon. Eyes looking into eyes make a hole which spreads out and renders one invisible. I had seen more of myself in that single glimpse of a ghostly image in the pier mirror, not knowing it was I.

proposer of any useful project that might be supposed to raise one's reputation." So he put himself "as much as I could out of sight" and gave credit for the idea to his friends. This method worked so well that "I ever after practiced it on such occasions." People will eventually give you the credit, he noted, if you don't try to claim it at the time. "The present little sacrifice of your vanity will afterwards be amply repaid.

Would you win the hearts of others, you must not seem to vie with them, but to admire them. Give them every opportunity of displaying their own qualifications, and when you have indulged their vanity, they will praise you in turn and prefer you above others . . . Such is the vanity of mankind that minding what others say is a much surer way of pleasing them than talking well ourselves."6

bobbybaird i'm a writer, so are you. we try to compose our thoughts and words for effect as well as sense. vain of us? a bit.

simplicity may be improved, but pride and conceit never. Well

my principal fault was an unconquerable pitch of pride, which exposed me to frequent mortification.