Vanity Quotes - Page 3

• No hay grados de vanidad; sólo hay grados de habilidad para ocultarla.

  Mark Twain

  Humor, Grados, Habilidad

  Mark Twain Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). "Mark Twain en la punta de los dedos: A Book of Quotations", p.494, Courier Corporation

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• La vanidad, el alarde, es una actitud que reduce la espiritualidad a una cosa mundana, que es el peor pecado que se puede cometer en la iglesia.

  Pope Francis

  Attitude, Church, Spirituality

  "'Carrerismo y vanidad: Pecados de la Iglesia'". Entrevista Vatican Insider, www.lastampa.it. 24 de febrero de 2012.

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• El orgullo es una herida y la vanidad es la costra que la cubre. La vida de uno hurga en la costra para abrir esa herida una y otra vez. Entre los hombres rara vez cicatriza y a menudo se vuelve séptica.

  Michael Ayrton

  Pride, Men, Scabs

  "El hacedor de laberintos: Una novela".

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• When a man has no longer any conception of excellence above his own, his voyage is done, he is dead,--dead in trespasses and sin of blear-eyed vanity.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Excellence, Done

  Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star papers; or, Experiences of art and nature”, p.295

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• There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Fool, Cures

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• Vanity is so closely allied to virtue, and to love the fame of laudable actions approaches so near the love of laudable actions for their own sake, that these passions are more capable of mixture than any other kinds of affection; and it is almost impossible to have the latter without some degree of the former.

  David Hume

  Passion, Degrees, Mixtures

  David Hume (2016). “Essays Moral, Political, Literary: Revision of Great Book”, p.66, VM eBooks

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• No emplees tu energía más que en una causa más noble que tú misma. Tal causa no puede encontrarse sino en Dios Todopoderoso mismo: predicar la verdad, defender la feminidad, repeler la humillación que tu Creador no te ha impuesto, ayudar a los oprimidos. Quien emplea su energía en aras de las vanidades del mundo es como quien cambia piedras preciosas por grava. No hay nobleza en quien carece de fe. El sabio sabe que el único precio adecuado para su alma es un lugar en el Paraíso.

  Ibn Hazm

  Sabio, Hombres, Alma

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• Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others.

  William Shakespeare

  Favors, Persons

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• Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Wise, Fate, Weak

  'Vanitas Vanitatum'

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• No es vanidad sentir que tienes derecho a ser guapa. A las mujeres nos enseñan a sentir que no somos lo bastante buenas, que tenemos que estar a la altura de los demás. Pero mi objetivo es valorarme tal y como soy.

  Elle Macpherson

  Bella, Moda, No Suficiente

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• False glory is the rock of vanity; it seduces men to affect esteem by things which they indeed possess, but which are frivolous, and which for a man to value himself on would be a scandalous error.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Errors, Rocks

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• Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.

  Walter Raleigh

  Talking, Deeds, Talk Is Cheap

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• Shine out fair sun, till I have bought a glass, That I may see my shadow as I pass.

  William Shakespeare

  Glasses, Shining, Shadow

  William Shakespeare, Janis Lull (2009). “King Richard III”, p.81, Cambridge University Press

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• With regard to power, women don't have the vanity men have. They don't need to make power visible, they only want the power to give them the other things they want. Security. Food. Enjoyment. Revenge. Peace. They are rational, power-seeking planners, who think beyond the battle, beyond the victory celebrations. And because they have an inborn capacity to see weakness in their victims, they know instinctively when and how to strike. And when to stop. You can't learn that.

  Jo Nesbo

  Revenge, Thinking, Men

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• There is much money given to be laughed at, though the purchasers don't know it; witness A.'s fine horse, and B.'s fine house.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Horse, House, Given

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• There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.

  George Washington

  Men, Littles, Tongue

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.324

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• When we are conscious of the least comparative merit in ourselves, we should take as much care to conceal the value we set upon it, as if it were a real defect; to be elated or vain upon it is showing your money before people in want.

  Colley Cibber

  Real, People, Merit

  Colley Cibber (1830). “An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Comedian”, p.27

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• Tu orgullo no es más que el prólogo de tu vergüenza; donde manda la vanagloria, allí aconseja la necedad; donde cabalga la soberbia, allí lacera la vergüenza.

  Francis Quarles

  Pride, Shame, Glory

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• Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.

  Edmund Burke

  Ambition, Sin, Mischief

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• There are women vain of advantages not connected with their persons, such as birth, rank, and fortune; it is difficult to feel less the dignity of the sex. The origin of all women may be called celestial, for their power is the offspring of the gifts of Nature; by yielding to pride and ambition they soon destroy the magic of their charms.

  Madame de Stael

  Sex, Ambition, Pride

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• Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?

  Denis Diderot

  Doe, Action, Objects

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• It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.

  Joseph Joubert

  Would Be, Handsome, Next

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• Vanity is so constantly solicitous of self, that even where its own claims are not interested, it indirectly seeks the aliment which it loves, by showing how little is deserved by others.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Self, Littles, Claims

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.18

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• Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect.

  Washington Allston

  Men, Justice, Negative

  Washington Allston (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.173

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• Vanity is the poison of agreeableness; yet as poison, when artfully and properly applied, has a salutary effect in medicine, so has vanity in the commerce and society of the world.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Medicine, Poison, World

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