#vanity

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #vanity




Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!


Diana Wynne Jones


#humor #vanity #humor

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.


Michael Ayrton


#vanity #life

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


Munia Khan


#livingbeing #pride #vanity #life

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


Jane Austen


#blindness #denial #folly #love #refusal

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


Frank Tallis


#morality #vanity #weakness #beauty

But the more shrewdly and earnestly we study the histories of men, the less ready shall we be to make use of the word ‘artificial.’ Nothing in the world has ever been artificial. Many customs, many dresses, many works of art are branded with artificiality because the exhibit vanity and self-consciousness: as if vanity were not a deep and elemental thing, like love and hate and the fear of death. Vanity may be found in darkling deserts, in the hermit and in the wild beasts that crawl around him. It may be good or evil, but assuredly it is not artificial: vanity is a voice out of the abyss.


G.K. Chesterton


#vanity #art

That which attracts the world must please and pander to the self-importance of man. The world itself is a vain show, and likes its own. Consequently there is nothing which so carries the mass of men along with it as that which flatters the vanity of the human mind. It may assume the lowliest air, but sinful man seeks his own honour and present exaltation.


William Kelly


#vanity #world #men

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.


Dale Carnegie


#people #prejudice #pride #relationships #vanity

[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of worshipping false gods, of failing to understand ourselves and misinterpreting the behaviour of others, of growing unproductively anxious or desirous, and of losing ourselves to vanity and error. Surreptitiously and beguilingly, then, with humour or gravity, works of art--novels, poems, plays, paintings or films--can function as vehicles to explain our condition to us. They may act as guides to a truer, more judicious, more intelligent understanding of the world.


Alain de Botton


#art #criticism #desire #films #gravity

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.


Jane Austen


#pride #vanity #think