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I care about being formally physically attractive in my life, and I think that I am quite vain about my performance. I'm just not vain about how I look while I give the performance.
Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.
I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.
With grace and beauty, feel.
He was vain: I do not believe I have ever met a more physically attractive person who was more acutely aware of his own physical attractiveness.
In vain would I seek to discover Why sad and mournful am I, My thoughts without ceasing brood over A tale of the time gone by.
I'm too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.
The vain being is the really solitary being.
The nakedness of the indignant world may be cloathed from the trimmings of the vain.
The vainest woman is never thoroughly conscious of her beauty till she is loved by the man who sets her own passion vibrating in return.
Look what a little vain dust we are!
A man may be humble through vainglory.
No thing happens in vain, but everything for a reason and by necessity.
A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.
Those who are vain have little ability to feel grateful.
Who says I'm vain?" "The comparison: your friend isn't. But I'm sorry for her, vanity is a resource. If you're vain you pay attention to yourself and your affairs.
A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.
I've never met a murderer who wasn't vain ... It's their vanity that leads to their undoing, nine times out of ten.They may be frightened of being caught, but they can't help strutting and boasting and usually they're sure they've been far too clever to be caught.
Dying in vain isn't really all that bad since nearly everyone does it. It's the living in vain you really have to watch out for.
I am vain. I think vanity is a good thing. It's done more good things for me than it has not.
Women may be vain, but when a man is vain, it is beyond believing, for a man is willing to die for his vanity.
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
Now, I'm not very vain. If I'd ever been, making my living covered in various grease and dirt mixtures would have cured me quickly. Still, I wasn't up to facing two sexy men when I had one eye swollen mostly shut and half of my face black and blue.
I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed.
But the vain man did not hear him. Vain men never hear anything but praise.
I am a parcel of vain strivings tied by a chance bond together.
Would a man ever be called vain for speaking his mind?
Forbid it Lord that I should boast, save in the death of Christ, my God: All the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to his blood.
Petty mind mocks.
A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others
We often brag that we are never bored with ourselves, and are so vain as never to think ourselves bad company.
I don't believe things happen in vain. I believe they happen for a reason.
To vain men, other people are admirers.
I'm vain. My arms are thin, but I'm vain about loose flesh. And so I'm careful that what I wear will show off my best parts, which are my waist and my butt.
Men are found to be vainer on account of those qualities which they fondly believe they have than of those which they really have.
For a girl who hated looking at herself, I was at risk of becoming vain.
With eager dragon-eyes;
A man who knows what it is to have humility is a vain man.
Season your admiration for a while.
Real beauty is never vain.
Like many men who consider their success incomplete, he was extraordinarily vain and consumed with a sense of his own importance.
Vanity is easily forgiven, for we are all vain, and even as we laugh at the weakness of others we feel that their vanity has touched the responding chord of our own.
It's not that I'm vain; I simply thought I had plenty of time, so I told Vivian I'd be ready to go in a few minutes.
When I was younger, I was really vain about it. Zarina used to tease me that I looked at my reflection so much that one day the bogeyman was going to come and steal my face. (Adron)
Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.
Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we posess them.
[T]he vanity of the contents" of individual experience is scrutable as an inessential trapping drawn into a matter by vested interests " ... since it is at the same time the vanity of the self that knows itself to be vain
The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.
Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.
Passionately desired, graciously received.
I'm an actor; I'm vain - you want to look good.
The praise that comes of love does not make us vain, but humble rather. Knowing what we are, the pride that shines in our mother's eyes as she looks at us is about the most pathetic thing a man has to face, but he would be a devil altogether if it did not burn some of the sin out of him.
To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.
Fiercely to cherish, softly to guard.
[ ... ] But then,
What is not vain, by God, in lives of men?
All is in vain! We play at blind man's buff
Until hard edges break into out path.
Man life's is error. Where, then, is relief?
In shedding tears or wrestling down my grief?
Who talks much, must talk in vain.
We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.
Drawn by conceit from reason's plan
How vain is that poor creature man;
How pleas'd in ev'ry paltry elf
To grate about that thing himself.
The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.
Let me not be so vain to think that I'm the sole author of my victories and a victim of my defeats.
All is vanity and everybody's vain. Women are terribly vain. So are men - more so, if possible.
[He] didn't like to think of himself as vain, but there were definitely times when he wished there was someone on hand to take his photograph.
We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.
[Vanity] is an unrecognised form of stupidity, you have to forget the cosmic meaninglessness of all our acts to be able to be vain and that's a glaring form of stupidity.
We're not only living lives of vanity; our passion for God is often nothing more than a passion to have God make our search for vanity a successful one.
I'm not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever.
Do not spend your time on vain things
An actor in a playwright's hide," he said sadly. "I'll never not be vain." "Oh, well. It's you," she said. "You're desperate for the love of strangers. To be seen." "You see me," he said, and he heard the echo with his thoughts a minute before and was pleased. "I do," she said. "Now.
Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train.
Men are just as vain as women, and sometimes even more so.
Like all vain men, he had moments of unreasonable confidence.
Beauty is wasted on the self-absorbed.
What is vanity but the longing to survive?
To be vain of one's rank or place is to show that one is below it.
In vanity there is a certain confidence and self-assurance that is unattractive in a young girl and is met with every attempt to be suppressed immediately.
How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.
It is clear to me now that, owing to my unbounded vanity and to the high standard I set for myself, I often looked at myself with furious discontent, which verged on loathing, and so I inwardly attributed the same feeling to everyone.
In the vanity of self-consciousness one feels at a long remove above the ordinary love and trustfulness of a simple and pure heart.
It is in vain, I perceive, to look for ease and happiness in a world of troubles.
The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.
Oh, that ludicrous virile earnestness!
In vain have oceans been squandered on you, in vain
the sun, wonderfully seen through Whitman's eyes.
You have used up the years and they have used up you,
and still, and still, you have not written the poem.
It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature.
view. Absentmindedly
Nature has made nothing in vain.
... Some people, under a nervous and self-effacing manner, conceal a great deal of vanity and self-satisfaction.
Self-seeking, self-glory, that is not me. No. Many people say I embarrass them with my humility.
Admiration involves a glorious obliquity of vision.
I marvel at how yearning can make you disintegrate.
EVERY intention which does not assert itself by deeds is a vain intention, and the speech which expresses it is idle speech. It is action which proves life and establishes will
Flattery would be worse than vain; there is no consolation in flattery.
Not vain the weakest, if their force unite.
It is often nothing but our own vanity that decieves us
Scarcely have I ever heard or read the introductory phrase, "I may say without vanity," but some striking and characteristic instance of vanity has immediately followed.
I glory in the emotionally commonplace
You're mother says you've never passed a mirror ou didn't like. It's true, in a way. It's not that you're vain; you're concerned. Mirrors are opportunities. They're random checkpoints throughout the day.
The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.
I look and look, / As though I could be saved simply by looking
With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail.