Why should he watch the hideous corruption of his soul?
Oscar WildeTags: vanity corruption
No one looks or feels attractive when angry.
Allan LokosTags: buddhism compassion vanity fashion meditation
I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not.
Lionel ShriverTags: vanity
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.
Jess C. ScottTags: music shallow vanity fame greed popularity rebellion rebel mediocrity marketing popular-culture commercialism corporate-culture popular corporate-greed corporate hype vainglory vain shallowness popstars commercialized commercialization fame-and-fortune shallow-apperances
Smile is the vainest thing you can wear without costing you anything
bheng927Man is the vainest of all
creatures that have their being upon earth. As long as heaven
vouchsafes him health and strength, he thinks that he shall come to
no harm hereafter, and even when the blessed gods bring sorrow upon
him, he bears it as he needs must, and makes the best of it; for
God Almighty gives men their daily minds day by day. I know all
about it, for I was a rich man once, and did much wrong in the
stubbornness of my pride, and in the confidence that my father and
my brothers would support me; therefore let a man fear God in all
things always, and take the good that heaven may see fit to send
him without vainglory.
So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dramas learned by their ancestors æons ago.
Olaf StapledonTags: vanity
All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, was but an unimportant, a seemingly barren and negligible effort, lasting only for a few moments in the life of the galaxy. When it was over, the host of the planetary systems still lived on, with here and there a casualty, and here and there among the stars a new planetary birth, and here and there a fresh disaster.
Olaf StapledonTags: stars universe vanity earth impermanence
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.
J.P. VinlucaTags: knowledge power men vanity control fools
Samo su sitne ptice šarene. Gavrani su crni. Ni orlovi se ne kite.
Dobrica ĆosićTags: vanity
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