49 quotes found
“I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not.”
“Of all the weaknesses that beset a man, vanity is the most deadly. For through vanity can a wise man turn to folly.”
“You can never see yourself the way you are to someone else - to a man looking at you, from behind, when you don't know - because in a mirror your own head is always cranked around over your shoulde...”
“Vanity is a defensive quality. it contains an element of fear.”
“Gertrude, behind her, again had just one... That one little feather she had as a starter. But now that's enough, because now she is smarter.”
“Vain until the bitter end.”
“He wil sooner lose his best friend, then his least jest.”
“There are many people in the world who are running after vanity. They are striving after things that the Lord is not building.”
“However anxious one is to reach ones goal, one can excuse delays on the route when these are caused by ovations.”
“Admiring and a little overwhelmed by the simple opulence of the limousines interior, she shook snowflakes from her scarf and tresses, hoping the rare effort she had put into doing her hair was not ...”
“Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said more than three thousand years ago.”
“It would be a great mistake to suppose that it is sufficient not to become personal yourself. For by showing a man quite quietly that he is wrong, and that what he says and thinks is incorrect a p...”
“If I really seem vain, it is that I am only vain in my waysnot in my heart. The worst women are those vain in their hearts, and not in their ways.”
“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.”
“The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.”
“Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.”
“Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.”
“Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion.”
“We all know you're beautiful, Scott.”
“I was sorry for her; I was amazed, disgusted at her heartless vanity; I wondered why so much beauty should be given to those who made so bad a use of it, and denied to some who would make it a bene...”
