Quotes About Vanity

Trump problem. He hopelessly personalized everything. He saw the world in commercial and show business terms: someone else was always trying to one-up you, someone else was always trying to take the limelight.

Trump's need for constant affirmation and his almost complete inability to talk about anything but himself.

Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.

A man may be humble through vainglory.

A source of permanent, accessible pleasure, our genitals exist. The god who created our misfortune, who made us short-lived, vain and cruel, has also provided this form of meagre compensation. If we couldn't have sex from time to time, what would life be? A futile struggle against joints that stiffen, caries that form. All of which, moreover, is as uninteresting as humanly possible - the collagen which makes muscles stiffen, the appearance of microbic cavities in the gums.

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.

Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.

With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins.

Women go to beauty parlors for the unmussed look men hate.

The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history.

The vanity of the passing world and love are the two fundamental and heart-penetrating notes of true poetry. And they are two notes of which neither can be sounded without causing the other to vibrate. The feeling of the vanity of the passing world kindles love in us, the only thing that triumphs over the vain and transitory, the only thing that fills life again and eternalizes it.

Gafita e o fudula si se crede frumusetea lumii, pentru ca barbatu-sau o poarta gatita. Frumoasa i s-a fi parand lui dar nu este.

A woman will always accept such talk, however false she knows it to be. The older and uglier she is the more readily will she do so, because she desires to believe it

Gdy? czÅ'owiek w swej zÅ'oÅ›ci jest okrutniejszy i bardziej zatwardziaÅ'y ni? krokodyle Rzeki. Jego serce jest twardsze ni? kamieÅ". Jego pró?no?? jest l?ejsza ni? pyÅ'. Zanurz go w wodzie, a gdy odzie? jego wyschnie, bÄ™dzie taki sam jak przedtem. Pogr?? go w trosce i w rozczarowaniu, a gdy siÄ™ znów podniesie, bÄ™dzie taki sam jak przedtem.

Oh vanity! You are the lever with which Archimedes wanted to raise the earthly globe!

Does your mirror Bedevil you?

This photo is more significant because it is a rare time where my head looks normal size. I have enormous head, so it is important to me to have a few flattering, head-minimizing photos.

The hair is the crown of the face.

Now, I'm not saying I'm fashionable, but there are sociological interests that matter to me, things that are theoretical, political, intellectual and also concerned with vanity and beauty that we all think about but that I try to mix up and translate into fashion.

That any gentleman should always keep In stern control this writing itch we're seized with; That he must hold in check the great impatience We feel to give the world these idle pastimes; For, through this eagerness to show our works, 'Tis likely we shall cut a foolish figure.

And self-conceit leads straight to self-deceit.

But how a man like you, who looks so wise And wears a moustache of such splendid size, Can be so foolish as to...

Hay gente a la que no le importa pasar por mala, pero no soporta que se le ponga en ridículo.

Do not therefore pull yourself up with vain-glory about the trifling advantages of a poor victory.