A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
虚荣
Vanity
If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to.
如果我有一个虚荣的愿望，那就是导演。这是我还没有做过的唯一一件我想做的事。
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
所谓慷慨，通常只是给予的虚荣;我们享受虚荣心甚于得到的东西。
People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.
那些只崇拜自己的人会有一种光滑、光亮的外表——就像纪念碑一样。真可惜他们这么快就走了。
Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.
没有什么比在别人身上表现出更大的虚荣心更能抚慰我们的虚荣心了;事实上，它使我们对自己的谦虚感到骄傲。
There's nothing like getting yourself into character and seeing a different person. It really wears on your vanity.
没有什么比让自己进入角色，看到一个不同的人更好的了。你的虚荣心可真受不了。
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
使我们因羞愧和嫉妒而感到痛苦的是虚荣不能帮助我们忍受它们。
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
意识到眼前快乐的虚假性，以及对缺乏快乐的虚荣心的无知，导致了无常。
Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.
虚荣心对自然是一种重要的帮助:对生命来说是完全和绝对必要的。这是大自然将你与地球联系在一起的方式之一。
Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
没有虚荣心，没有卖弄风情，没有好奇心，一句话，没有堕落，女人就不会是女人。她的优雅主要在于她的脆弱。
What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.
我们所说的慷慨，在很大程度上只是给予的虚荣心;我们这样做是因为我们更喜欢虚荣心而不是我们给予的东西。
Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.
无论我拥有什么才能，都可能突然减少或增加。我可以轻松地变成一个普通的傻瓜。我现在可能就是其中之一。但这并不会破坏一个人的虚荣心。
I think when you do comedy, you play by a different set of rules. No one really wants you to be in that good shape. Being in good shape implies a level of vanity that isn't necessarily funny.
我认为当你演喜剧时，你要遵循一套不同的规则。没有人真的想让你保持良好的状态。保持良好的体型意味着一定程度的虚荣心，而这种虚荣心并不一定是有趣的。
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
如果没有虚荣心作伴，美德将走得很远。
The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
公开秘密的主要动机之一，通常是出于虚荣心，希望别人相信自己能保守秘密。
Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
人的脸红不是因为他们的罪行，而是因为他们的软弱和虚荣。
We are often shot with our own feathers.
我们经常被自己的羽毛击中。
The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
正直人的心，是无邪的，没有不义的行为，也没有虚谎的意念。