Blaise Pascal Quotes

We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.

If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path.

It is better to look good than to feel good.

You're only famous in the eyes of others. Inside, you're still the same, and not a hundred million records or TV shows can change that. I think the only pitfall of fame is believing that it means something, and behaving like that.

I'm still figuring out why people would want to look at me. Maybe it's generic beauty, but it's weird to be valued for something I was born with.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

I'm as vain as the next guy. I have a facade on right now. But you can't see it, because it's reality-based.

I'd so much rather people think I was funny than pretty.

The way people see you is the way you really are.

We try to create this interesting appearance to make ourselves feel better about ourselves.

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.

Funny how defined we are by how we present ourselves to the world.

When a woman confuses what she is with what she wears, then something is wrong inside.

I'm not image-obsessed.

You can choose, you can go one of two ways. You can be the person I probably admire more and say 'well I don't care and I'll continue not to bother to brush my hair.' Or you can be a weak-willed person like me and think 'oh I'd better get my act together. And maybe my mother was right and I do need to put my hair back and tidy myself up a bit.' So I did tidy myself up a bit. But I do often resent the amount of time that it takes to pull yourself together to go on TV, I really do. If I sound bitter, then that accurately reflects how I feel about the subject.

Is it not excessively ridiculous to seek the good opinion of those whom you would never wish to be like?

They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?

We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.

One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.

Vanity does not refer to the opinion a man entertains of himself, but to that which he wishes others to entertain of him.

...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.

Trust a girl of sixteen for knowing well if she is pretty; concerning her plainness she may be ignorant.

He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more he loses himself the more he has to endeavor to regain his position by means of the opinion of others.

One man is more concerned with the impression he makes on the rest of mankind, another with the impression the rest of mankind makes on him.