#vanity

When women smoke, it is hard for them to quit because they are so worried about their weight; it's a vanity issue and a mindset. ↗

— Loni Anderson

#because #hard #issue #mindset #quit

Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon. ↗

— John Doerr

#clearly #more #now #phenomenon #readers

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty. ↗

— Louis Kronenberger

#fact #greater #in fact #make #modesty

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#bad #cruelty #direction #facing #fail

If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#people #respect #vanity #life

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty. ↗

— George Eliot

#pride #vanity #witty #life

Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity. ↗

— George Eliot

#materialism #vanity #life

Foolish men always believe that a little knowledge will give them control over the world, but it is no more than a display of their vanity. ↗

— J. P. Vinluca

#fools #knowledge #men #power #vanity

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it; for, however absurd it may be thought to boast an honour by an act which shows that it was conferred without merit, yet most men seem rather inclined to confess the want of virtue than of importance. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#self-importance #trustworthiness #vanity #men

How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is the personal object of a divine plan? ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#vanity #religion