#vanity

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #vanity




It was in the reign of George II. that the above-named personages lived and quarrelled ; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, they are all equal now


William Makepeace Thackeray


#life #vanity #death

Love is responsible for nearly every kind of insanity in the world though greed, vanity, and pure meanness contribute their portion to general misery.


P.N. Elrod


#insanity #life #love #meanness #misery

The physical vanity of the diet-and-exercise obsessive is recast as the pursuit of a kind of ritual purity, hedged about with taboos and guilt trips and mysticized by yoga. (Not for nothing does Amazon.com include diet and exercise books on its "Religion and Spirituality" bestseller list. ....)


Ross Douthat


#exercise #puritanical #purity #vanity #yoga

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.


Jane Austen


#blindness #denial #folly #love #refusal

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.


Jane Austen


#pride #vanity #think

What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.


Paulo Coelho


#vanity #dignity

There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.


Tennessee Williams


#suicide #vanity #kill

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.


William Makepeace Thackeray


#vanity

Vanity, right?" Nash reappeared in the living room with an open bag of potato chips. "I nominate my venerable brother. He likes to play hero, and one look at him should establish the vanity angle." "Nash!" I really shouldn't have been surprised by the dig. But I was. "What?" He raised one brow at me in challenge. "It's okay to call me jealous, but not to call him vain?" "Awareness of one's obvious advantages doesn't imply vanity," Tod insisted calmly. Nash turned on him. "Does it imply narcissism?" Tod huffed. "This coming from the guy who owns more hair products than his girlfriend.


Rachel Vincent


#tod #vanity #vanity

In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.


William Makepeace Thackeray


#vanity