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...

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.

Humility is the only defence against vanity

Death before dishonour,” and so on.

Knowing the truth is so minuscule compared to having the nerve to say it…and even more to live it.

Probably more than any concrete vice or failing Amory despised his own personality – he loathed knowing that to-morrow and the thousand days after he would sell pompously at a compliment and sulk at an...

Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always...

Now I feel like James Bond. Suave and intelligent, breaking all the codes while looking fabulous.

SONG OF DAWNI saw the sun rise by accident.It was a horrible sight.Annoyed by its splendor, I sought refugein a moist pillow, and lay there, alone,at the dawn of another day,that brought me closer to...

Consider an achievement accidental if it is not coupled with modesty. Because if the achiever had endeavoured for it, it would certainly have killed their pride.

Vanity remains a feeble weaponThe delusional wearer of it considers herself strong

All success in life comes to naught if it is laced with vanity.

A part of me genuinely wanted to be the worst because I was so sick of everyone fighting to be the best.

Why did you come in to-night with your heads in the air? ‘Make way, we are coming! Give us every right and don’t you dare breathe a word before us. Pay us every sort of...

He had the vanity to believe men did not like him – while men simply did not know him.

It hardly matters, sweet; once they’ve come off, the attention isn’t likely to center on my absurdly handsome knees.

Gracious Providence, to whom I owe all my powers, why didst thou not withhold some of those blessings I possess, and substitute in their place a feeling of self-confidence and contentment?

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

Don’t be vain. What you look like doesn’t matter. It’s the deed that matters.

You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.

Every self-respecting act of persuasion must find appeal to curiosity, then to vanity, and lastly to kindness or remorse. Isabella looked down and slowly nodded.

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.

Foolish men always believe that a little knowledge will give them control over the world, but it is no more than a display of their vanity.

It’s all about vanity, isn’t it? I think it says something about people if they can’t do it

All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, was but an unimportant, a seemingly barren and negligible effort, lasting only for a few moments in the life of the galaxy. When...

I am less to you than your ivory Hermes or your silver Faun. You will like them always. How long will you like me? Till I have my first wrinkle, I suppose. I know, now,...

Virtue was vanity dressed up and waiting for applause.

But if we reason it out simply and not try to be one bit fancy, then what sort of pride can you possibly take or what’s the sense of ever having it, if man is...

If I’d been born ugly, you’d never have heard of Pelé.

She raised herself up on an elbow, stroked my forehead & said in a hushed half-whisper, ‘You will be famous.’ “The seed was planted. Ambition fed on the compost of my vanity.

She was the most alone person he had ever met – so intent on staying forever breathtaking that she could never let any of life’s glories take her own breath away.

But who bothers looking beyond the surface? Who even knows anything about Cinderella’s Prince Charming – other than he’s a handsome prince?

When you build a fence around yourself, you’ll wonder why people are afraid to approach you, because the pride in the fence is the cause of your blindness.

I’m not motivated by vanity, glory or the quest for power.