vanity

Vanity dulls the senses.

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is in our follies that we are at one.

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 me tell you something 'bout those rich Uptown folk," said Cokie. "They got everything that money can buy, their bank accounts are fat, but they ain't happy. They ain't ever gone be happy. You know why? They soul broke. And money can't fix that, no sir. My friend Bix was poor. Lord, he had to blow that trumpet ten hours a day just to put a little taste in the pot. Died poor, too. You saw him, Jo, with that plate on his chest. But that man wasn't soul broke.

Vain until the bitter end.

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.

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

I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs me, nothing seems worth doing or worth having done: the only thing that I strongly feel worth while would be to murder as many people as possible so as to diminish the amount of consciousness in the world. These times have to be lived through: there is nothing to be done with them.

Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said more than three thousand years ago.

Humility is the only defence against vanity

I tell you, my dear, Narcissus was no egoist_ he was merely another of us who, in our unshatterable isolation, recognized, on seeing his reflection, the one beautiful comrade, the only inseparable love_ poor Narcissus, possibly the only human who was ever honest on this point.

I cried because I was so beautiful.

There are many people in the world who are running after vanity. They are striving after things that the Lord is not building.

I just don't get it. You've been in love with this bloke since you were a kid, and he's never once got his hair cut short enough that it doesn't poke him in the damn eye.

But I begin to fancy you don't like me. How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me. (Catherine Linton, nee Earnshaw)

Admiring and a little overwhelmed by the simple opulence of the limousine__ interior, she shook snowflakes from her scarf and tresses, hoping the rare effort she had put into doing her hair was not entirely r

Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It__ a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is.

Of all the weaknesses that beset a man, vanity is the most deadly. For through vanity can a wise man turn to folly.

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!