Quotes About Vanity

What was glory but something that reduced the more there were of you to share it?

Hairlessness is an aggressive stance, and implies a lack of vanity and disdain for luxury. It implies a state of war. A French-style waxing job or pubic 'landing strip' is like the so-called mohawk haircut favored by the Pawnee tribe and used in times of war by Cossacks, airborne troops, and the like. The 'Brazilian' wax job is the full skinhead.

most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same.

When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. This is quite obvious to people nowadays, when it is widely recognised that fixations are not the same as valuable and laudable observances. One should not pray if that prayer is vanity; rituals are wrong when they provide lower satisfactions, like emotional stimulus instead of enlightenment; he or she should not be an ascetic who is only enjoying it.

One should not pray if that prayer is vanity.

La independencia prematura es la hija de la vanidad

Uno no debería rezar si esa oración es vanidad.

muchos sistemas acaban convirtiendo la humildad imaginada en una forma de vanidad, de modo que acaban igualmente en vanidad.

The candle burned the moth: But soon it will vanish in its own fat.

You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol.

Reto importante para la vanidad de los psicólogos: no se trata de que los pacientes se enamoren y dependan de ellos, sino de que se curen y sean de veras libres.

Up to his twenty-sixth year the heart of Ignatius was enthralled by the vanities of the world. His special delight was in the military life, and he seemed led by a strong and empty desire of gaining for himself a great name.

Arrogance is blindness.

However, throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. For my part, I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?

When I am gone, I do not want men to say Look at his piles of wealth, his cities, his palaces and fine clothes. " Genghis paused for a moment. "Instead I want them to say Make sure he is truly dead. He is a vicious old man and he conquered half the world.

Nothing seduces vanity like the word "help".

I while yet a youth wrote in a quite large volume three books of magical things, which I called De occulta philosophia , in which whatever was then erroneous because of my curious youth, now, more cautious, I wish to retract by this recantation, for formerly I spent much time and goods on these vanities.

She opened a small silver compact and looked at her face in its mirror. I am still guiltless, she thought, I have not done it yet. But I will look the same when I have done it; nobody will know the difference by looking at me. She touched the little puff twice to her nose and once to her chin. She closed the compact and put it away. ("Mind Over Murder")

Mirrors are for misery, nothing more...they record decay.

It always seemed to me that men wore their beards, like they wear their neckties, for show.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.

I thought my nose was too prominent so I had this corrected via plastic surgery in 1959.

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.