#vanity

A person can't help their birth. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#vanity

It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#insignificance #unpopularity #vanity #vanity

I think it is vanity to want to put into a story anything but the story itself. ↗

— Julio Cortázar

#writing #vanity

You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#revenge #vanity #women #humor

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

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

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#automobile #begins #chain #country #distinction

Stupidity talks, vanity acts. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#stupidity #talks #vanity

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. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#fall #frailty #grace #her #much