Quotes About Vanity

Vanity often roots itself in insecurity

I shall stick to our vow: never, never under any circumstances, to say anything unbecoming of the other...The trouble, of course, is that most successful men are prone to some form of vanity. There comes a stage in their lives when they consider it permissible to be egotistic and to brag to the public at large about their unique achievements.

But internal factors may be even more crucial in assessing one's development as a human being. Honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, pure generosity, absence of vanity, readiness to serve others – qualities which are within easy reach of every soul – are the foundation of one's spiritual life.

Edgardina sempre de preto; e feliz, envaidecida, porque a dor não arrefecia no seu coração.

THE DESIRE FOR PRIVACY is strong; vanity is stronger.

My name is Tomlyn. I am very beautiful. Marshall says I am spiteful and wicked and a barbarian to boot. He's jealous of my thick grey fur, my white chin and breast, and the snowy end of my tail. I suppose he can't help being envious, the great rusty-black thing! He's got a big, blunt beak, and stubby wings, and tiny little eyes... He's old and stupid and a coward; with an endless flow of long words that he can't possibly understand.

At root fame is a sham. I'm not going to live forever and if I am I certainly need don't you to tell me that so that I will buy a car or a box of dried up crackers.

Hild looked down at her reflection. A tall, obdurate woman gazed back. Blue-green veil band embroidered with gold-and-silver thread, sewn with lapis and agate and beryl. Agate swinging from each ear. Heavy yellow gold resting between her breasts. Dyed-blue girdle. A matching purse with ivory lid.

The reactionary is that fool who possesses the vanity to judge history, and the immorality to come to terms with it.

Das widerlichste und groteskeste der Schauspiele ist das der Überlegenheit des lebenden Professors über das tote Genie.

Not intelligence but vanity reproaches "intellectual isolation".

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him.

A fool can always find a greater fool to admire him

If you would estimate the extent of a woman's pride in youth, see how much remains even after she has passed the age of pleasing.

There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools

Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through him in a sort of picturesque disorder. Self-sacrifice, magnanimity in decisive moments, courage, intelligence--and with all that, a generous mixture of self-love, ambition, vanity, petty personal ticklishness, and a good many of those things which a man simply cannot do without.

Business was successfully concluded. But—strange is man: he was deeply mortified at being in disfavour with the very people whom he did not respect, and whose vanity and love of dress he derided.

Non è panno questo, ma gloria: come soffia un po' di vento vola via.

We're all stupid, chasing after vanity!" ... "Really, it comes from idleness! Everything's near, everything's close at hand, yet we run to some far-off kingdom. Is it not life, if one is occupied, be it even in a remote corner? The pleasure indeed consists in labor. And nothing's sweeter than the fruit of one's own labors . . .

But human nature is inscrutable: he was depressed at the thought of the disapproval of the very people he despised, at whose vanity and general behavior he had laughed.

Look what shoes I brought you---the empress herself wore them." "No, no, I don't need any shoes..." and she blushed deeply.