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

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 a man’s beauty represents inner, functional truths: his face shows what he can do. And what is that compared to the magnificent uselessness of a woman’s face? Mersault was aware of this now, delighting...

But I feel vanity is a part of art and the non-vain are really non-artistic.

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

One of the characters in our story, Gavril Ardalionovitch Ivolgin, belonged to the other category; he belonged to the category of “much cleverer” people; though head to toe he was infected with the desire to...

We must remember that possession of physical beauty can easily weaken the moral faculty.

Vanity and superficiality, placed deliberately on display, can be a burden; take this nonsense overboard.

But how can anyone put a bridle on man’s vanity and arrogance? But how can Purity walk the earth without covering her feet with mud?

Agatha: “If you say anything smug or stuck-up or shallow, I’ll have Reaper follow you home.”Sophie: “But then I can’t talk!

Mirrors are dangerous things. They can just as easily tell us what we don’t like as what we do. Yet in truth you can’t tell anything from a reflection, as a reflection is actually empty.

We all know you’re beautiful, Scott.

The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down!

Will you destroy something in order to make it beautiful?Will you avoid something in order to fall in love with it?Will you sacrifice something just so that you get it?Will you maintain distance from someone...

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

All is vanity, and discovering it – the greatest vanity

The stupidest people suddenly become a little cleverer when we learn that they think well of us

Besides, nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.

guileless and without vanity,we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our own skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could...

Hairspray and blusher, eyelash curlers, eye-shadow palettes the size of tea-trays. Even before they left school it was as if they were already rehearsing for some witless kind of womanhood.

Samo su sitne ptice šarene. Gavrani su crni. Ni orlovi se ne kite.

In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat.

Let him have all the perfections in the world, I think it ought not to be set down as certain that a man must be acceptable to every woman he may happen to like himself.

You have people out here trying to tell you to accept imperfections and that nobody is perfect (except for a dead/make-believe entity?) but if you are telling yourself that you are not perfect, aren’t you...

It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good.

Jo, they have a baby grand piano, but no one in the family plays. They have shelves of books they’ve never read, and the tension between the couples was so thick it nearly choked us.””Let...

There is a code of behavior, she knew, whose seventh article (it may be) says that on occasions of this sort it behooves the woman, whatever her own occupation may be, to go to the...

However anxious one is to reach one’s goal, one can excuse delays on the route when these are caused by ovations.

I am afraid of those who are too simple on the outside; for their vanities they wear upon their hearts. Better to meet a person who wears their vanities out in the open where you...

Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.

We’ve already had Malthus, the friend of humanity. But the friend of humanity with shaky moral principles is the devourer of humanity, to say nothing of his conceit; for, wound the vanity of any one...

Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.

The problem is hedonism. The problem is the preening vanity and selfishness of ‘coming out,’ of parading private inclinations, of a kind that repel normal people, as if those inclinations were, all by themselves, marks...

Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I’m not ready for that yet.

bobbybaird i’m a writer, so are you. we try to compose our thoughts and words for effect as well as sense. vain of us? a bit.

The way you think about yourself determines your reality. You are not being hurt by the way people think about you. Many of those people are a reflection of how you think about yourself.

They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.

Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

If you keep trying to do it all at once in a big blast way, you’ll end up not doing it at all

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Doesn’t matter how pretty you are. What’s important is how pretty you feel. No one feels pretty when they hear “no” often enough.

I believe the secret of the success of psychoanalysis resides in people’s vanity.

I would have chosen any other than this for my prison. A rhinoceros is as ugly as a human being, and it too is going to die, but at least it never thinks that it...

The tyrant is a child of PrideWho drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity,Until from his high crest headlongHe plummets to the dust of hope.

Robert Ashford possessed one of the key character flaws necessary to a traitor. He thought he was smarter than everyone else. This allowed the overeducated career bureaucrat to sell out his own country, because he...

Pretentiousness isn’t always just big words and meaningless jargon, but also pretty words that either when put into action don’t mean beans or hurt you in the long run. Oftentimes, the former appeals to the...

We think we are being interesting to others when we are being interesting to ourselves.

You are vain and wicked- as a genius should be.

At the end of the day, if pride is your greatest strength, turn it into vanity.

Confidence cannot escalate to arrogance, it only happens if the blood of pride is running through your veins.