I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something...

But the vain man did not hear him. Vain men never hear anything but praise.

She seemed to be lovely still to herself, as if no amount of looking into mirrors could ruin her illusion.

I object to that object that’s made of bronze and shaped like my clone. It should be made of gold, and shaped like me.

Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot’s character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth; and, at fifty-four, was still a very fine man....

I’m amazing and studly, but I have limits.

Pride is a wound, and vanity is the scab on it. One’s life picks at the scab to open the wound again and again. In men, it seldom heals and often grows septic.

WORTH IT?It is no credit to our phase of civilization if it is fear rather than ambition that drives most of those who bankrupt themselves on the vanities, or who end up under the surgeon’s...

In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to...

No one looks or feels attractive when angry.

It’s neither judgment nor judgment according to the status quo that we have a problem with, but rather judgment according to God’s Word that we have a problem with. We sharply dress ourselves, go out...

It is less mortifying to believe one’s self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.

The false face had been handsome, yes, but consciously so. As though he was too aware of his own attractivensss, something she found distinctly unappealing.

It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their deficiencies than of their available gifts.

ျမနႏၵာ၏ ပံုတူမ်ား ဆြဲၿပီးလွ်င္ အိပ္ရာေခါင္းရင္း၌ စီတန္းခ်ိတ္ဆြဲႏိုင္မည္။ သာမန္လူအေပါင္းတို႔ ေစာ္ကားျခင္းမွ ကင္းလြတ္ရန္ ဖဲလိုက္ကာျဖဴျဖင့္ေတာ့ ဖံုးအုပ္ထားမည္။ တစ္ကိုယ္ေကာင္းဆန္လို၍ေတာ့ မဟုတ္။

You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by hearing the master pieces which have been produced at different periods.

To spend your time trying to make your body flawless is to waste your time. Even if it appears to match some externalized ideals of perfection for a moment, your physical self will wrinkle and...

Clichés so often befall vain people.

I’m pretty much a goddess around here.

You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing— your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about fiction writing; a certain amount of vanity is necessary to be able to...

Every men wanted to be his friend and every woman wanted to be in his bed

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

If lighthouse becomes a burning candle, flickered upon ocean’s insanity.Your sailing heart there anchors to handle the obsessed breeze towards sand dune’s vanity.

Cole was meticulous to a fault; office scuttlebut had it that he never went out in public without first having his shoelaces ironed.

Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity; so they have betaken, themselves to errour. Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to...

The devil…the prowde spirite…cannot endure to be mocked.

If human nature were not base, but thoroughly honourable, we should in every debate have no other aim than the discovery of truth; we should not in the least care whether the truth proved to...

Lockhart’ll sign anything if it stands still long enough.

If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.

Like pets, I name my leftover food. Only I name them all after myself, partly so my coworkers won’t eat them in the fridge, but mostly out of vanity.

I’m brilliant as well as skilled,” he said modestly. “It’s a great burden, all of that on top of my angelic good looks. But I try to soldier on as best I can.

My vanity suggested I should take offense, but the deeper part of me was relieved- relieved that he was noble enough to want to make such a sacrifice from his heart rather than from his...

She was not vain enough to work her will against the world. But she could use the things the world had given her.

Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said more than three thousand years ago.

One Must Choose Among Both Parties Either To Be A Wise Man That Die To Live In Righteousness And Blissfulness For Eternity Or Be A Foolish Man That Lives To Die For Vanity.

No man voluntarily expresses his opinion without some intent to make a difference, and even if he does, he shouldn’t.

She had in truth no abstract propensity to malice: she did not dislike Lily because the latter was brilliant and predominant, but because she thought that Lily disliked her. It is less mortifying to believe...

There’s just something unsettling about studying your reflection. It’s not a matter of being dissatisfied with your face or of being embarrassed by your vanity. Maybe it’s that when you gaze into your own eyes,...

You have to understand that only the very worst end up here: the ones whose anger made them kill, and who felt no sorrow or guilt after the act; those so obsessed with themselves that...

Love is responsible for nearly every kind of insanity in the world though greed, vanity, and pure meanness contribute their portion to general misery.

I cried because I was so beautiful.

The physical vanity of the diet-and-exercise obsessive is recast as the pursuit of a kind of ritual purity, hedged about with taboos and guilt trips and mysticized by yoga.

Amongst democratic nations men easily attain a certain equality of conditions: they can never attain the equality they desire. It perpetually retires from before them, yet without hiding itself from their sight, and in retiring...

Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.

I thought of what pride would look like, a jowly old guy in a smoking jacket. Vanity was a tall, beautiful woman with a face like a mask. Envy was a treasure-hoarding dragon, dainty and...

[…] But then,What is not vain, by God, in lives of men?All is in vain! We play at blind man’s buffUntil hard edges break into out path.Man life’s is error. Where, then, is relief?In shedding...

La vanidad se encuentra en los lugares más inesperados: al lado de la bondad, de la abnegación, de la generosidad.

A dead man’s vanity: his ashes full of life that cannot be deceased before a living being’s pride.

But then one regrets the loss even of one’s worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one’s personality.

Vanity breeds insanity; humility leads to utility.