Quotes About Vanity

We are all prisoners inside the barbed wire of attachment, with sentries of desire and fear guarding us from our freedom. Luxury, comfort, lust for life, vanities are the Detaining Powers of the spirit of every man. - Alastair Cram

Schulz] came to see that the better part of his shyness was really vanity, or self-centeredness. Shyness is an illusion, he would say, late in life. If you get out and do something and talk to people, you don't have to be shy. Shyness is the overtly self-conscious thinking that you are the only person in the world; that how you look and what you do is of any importance.

That's the problem with wishes, they ensnare you. In fairy tales they're nothing but trouble, magnifying the greed and vanity of the person for whom they are granted.

She offered to have my glasses fixed but drew the line when I asked for a brand-new pair. "But the ones I've got make me look like a bozo." "Well, of course they do," she said. "They're glasses. That's their job.

The line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern. The man who stands before a crowd and proclaims his intention to save the seas is convinced that he is superior to a man who merely picks up his own and other people's litter on the beach, when in fact the latter is in some small way sure to make the world a better place, while the former is likely to be a monster of vanity whose crusade will lead to unintended destruction.

How obvious can it be? ... The purpose of makeup is to defy the degradations of time, and time is just a synonym for death.

My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition. I mock this skull.

When you die, there is nothing--only a life that will be forgotten. -from Gathering Ashes

Her subject was pride, in all its forms.

Pasakyk, kuo didžiuojiesi, ir aš pasakysu, ko tau tr?ksta. Tai kasdienin? m?s? duona.. Neišman?lis dažnai prisistato kaip žinovas, žmogžudys - kaip pagailos vertas žmogus, nusid?jelis - kaip šventeiva, lupikautojas - kaip nusižemin?s žmogus, storžievis - kaip elegantas, o silpnaprotis - kaip intelektualas

I found out too that you are bound to be jostled in the crowded street of life. That in itself need not be dangerous unless you have the open razors of personal vanity in your pants pocket. The passers-by don't hurt you, but if you go around like that, they make you hurt yourself.

But the whole town got vain over it

I am self-centred. I just adore myself.

We try to create this interesting appearance to make ourselves feel better about ourselves.

Barring some sociopaths, probably, there is nobody who doesn't care about their appearance.

Working in the media, on camera, you could become obsessed with your appearance and how you look. But I have tended to go the other way and I have become less obsessed as I get older.

I don't like the selfie because it's too close. There ain't no people with arms long enough to do a selfie of me.

Les parvenus sont comme les singes, desquels ils ont l'adresse: on les voit en hauteur, on admire leur agilité pendant Tescalade; mais, arrivés à la cime, on n'aperçoit plus que leurs côtés honteux.

Si las parisienses son tan a menudo falsas, ebrias de vanidad, personales y coquetas, es evidente, sin embargo, que cuando aman verdaderamente sacrifican mayor número de sentimientos a sus pasiones. Se elevan por encima de sus pequeñeces y llegan a ser sublimes.

Ha! ha! suppose one of us were to carry off the Creole marchioness from that Georges Marest!" "Fine occupation that, for a clerk in our office!" cried Godeschal. "Will you never control your vanity, popinjay?

Látta feje fölött elrepülni a démont, akit oly könny? angyalnak nézni, a csillogó szárnyú sátánt, aki drágaköveket hajigál, aranynyilait a paloták homlokzatára lövelli, bíborba öltözteti a n?ket, és ostoba fénnyel árasztja el az eredetileg oly egyszer? trónokat: hallgatta a hiúság istenének rikoltozását, akinek hamis csillogása mintha a hatalmat jelképezné.

The cold Camellia only, stiff and white, Rose without perfume, lily without grace, When chilling winter shows his icy face, Blooms for a world that vainly seeks delight.

Çok mutluyum, mutluluk benim için bir hastal?k gibidir, beni yorar ve bir dü? gibi silinip gitmesinden korkar?m.

Pride makes us esteem ourselves; vanity makes us desire the esteem of others.