Quotes About Vanity

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

It is last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves, To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man.

My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely.

Some know, but to know. Some know, to be known. Some know, to practise what they know. Now, to know, but to know—that is curiosity. To know, to be known—that is vain glory. But to know, to practise what we know—that is gospel duty.

You look good," I tell my reflection. "Hot?" But this last part comes out with a question mark at the end. I've never been good at sales.

Let's just call things what they are. When a man's love of finery clouds his moral judgment, that is vanity. When he lets a demanding palate make his moral choices, that is gluttony. When he ascribes the divine will to his own whims, that is pride. And when he gets angry at being reminded of animal suffering that his own daily choices might help avoid, that is moral cowardice.

When a man's love of finery clouds his moral judgment, that is vanity. When he lets a demanding palate make his moral choices, that is gluttony. When he ascribes the divine will to his own whims, that is pride. And when he gets angry at being reminded of animal suffering that his own daily choices might help avoid, that is moral cowardice.

Les conversations ordinaires sont des « échos d'échos », regrettait l'ermite Patrul Rinpoché. Il suffit d'allumer la télévision ou de se rendre à une soirée mondaine pour être englouti par un déluge de paroles qui non seulement sont inutiles mais exacerbent la convoitise, le ressentiment, la vanité...

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

He was too much concerned with his own perfection ever to think of admiring any one else.

All the roads of the haughty man lead to arrogance!

Do you want your name to live forever? You fool! Forget your name, try to save yourself! What use there is for you, if your name lives and you die? You fool!

For a haughty man, all roads lead to arrogance!

Some little pieces of sand are so full of ego that they see themselves as a giant rock! But then the wind blows, the big ego flies in the air!

You frantically want to make a mark on the history of humanity? You, King of the Fools! In the very distant future, there shall be no history; there shall remain not even a single trace of anything!

I'm frightened to look at myself in the mirror because maybe nothing's there.

Do my questions annoy you?" He glanced at her, his surprise evident. "No. I'm far too vain to object; I am my favorite topic.

Allà dins hi havia viscut gent. De la vanitat, de l'odi, de les miques d'amor, en quedava la pols i un trist espectacle d'esplendor i d'oblit.

Toda a cidade bela usa um espelho que é feito de água. Basta que haja um lago para que a cidade possa envaidecer.

Each time she applied her lip gloss, she imagined another fleet of brain cells dying a horrible death.

Actually, I'm really quite vain about the whole problem because I figure there is no competition - I am what I am, and either I am needed as that or I'm not suitable anyway.

My Jesus, I have now seen that everything in the world is vanity, that only one thing is necessary: to love You and serve You with fidelity, to resemble and make myself entirely like unto You.

Obviously I have this strange animal magnetism. It's very hard to take my eyes off myself.

You can pick out actors by the glazed look that comes into their eyes when the conversation wanders away from themselves.