#vanity

I was sorry for her; I was amazed, disgusted at her heartless vanity; I wondered why so much beauty should be given to those who made so bad a use of it, and denied to some who would make it a benefit to both themselves and others. But, God knows best, I concluded. There are, I suppose, some men as vain, as selfish, and as heartless as she is, and, perhaps, such women may be useful to punish them. ↗

— Anne Brontë

#beauty

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense. ↗

— Julian Casablancas

#common sense #easily #overtake #overtakes #sense

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#preserve #vanity #will #you #yourself

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#fashion #industry #levied #poor #rich

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#feed #happiness #ladies #love #pride

The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die. ↗

— Pierre de Coubertin

#balance #considerations #day #derives #die

I think it's good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and begin using your body as an asset or as an extension of your vanity, you've gone too far. ↗

— Peter Coyote

#begin #bodies #body #care #cross

But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#fault #nation #vanity #young #youth

The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure. ↗

— Jackie DeShannon

#exposure #fair #full #gives #great

You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere. ↗

— Dave Blood

#control #energy #fool #get #how