Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.
When you are in a room with Kurtis, whether its one or a hundred he is the only person that matters.
Don't be vain. What you look like doesn't matter. It's the deed that matters.
The World will give you hopeless vanity, but what will you give the World?
Love is responsible for nearly every kind of insanity in the world though greed, vanity, and pure meanness contribute their portion to general misery.
Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!
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.
I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake of
divine vanity.
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.
It was in the reign of George II. that the above-named personages lived and quarrelled ; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, they are all equal now
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.
How beautiful would it be if we could just see souls instead of bodies? To see love and compassion instead of curves.
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.
Women that can work a camera with ease often work men just as effortlessly for both require the same commitment to vanity and manipulation.
The true business of the philosopher, though not flattering to his vanity, is merely to ascertain, arrange and condense the facts.
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.
Don't be carried away by beauty, for the faeces also stays in the rectum of ravishing faces, and their private life is not beautiful as their public life...fear beauty!
For as love is oftentimes won with beauty, so it is not kept, preserved, and continued, but by virtue and obedience.
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.
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 in his vanity and smiling at his secret demons.
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.
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.
The courageous testimony of Dr. Faust that a maiden's smile is more precious than history, philosophy, education, religion, law, politics,economics, and all the other branches of learning. Learning is another name for vanity. It is the effort of human beings not to be human beings.
He knows how to market himself well. Nowadays, that's all that seems to count. He's rebellious in a way that appeals to people with vain, shallow taste. So of course he manipulates his audiences with the blessing of his recording company and the financial investors behind his brand.
Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It’s a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is.
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.
If pride really went before a fall, then, Lucifer is the inventor of pride.
Never trust someone that claims they care nothing of what society thinks of them. Instead of conquering obstacles, they simply pretend they don't exist.
It's all about vanity, isn't it? I think it says something about people if they can't do it
...most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same.
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 wish to avoid.
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 age. Work on your mind. Work on your legacy.
@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.
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