#vanity

A dead man’s vanity: his ashes full of life that cannot be deceased before a living being’s pride. ↗

— Munia Khan

#livingbeing #pride #vanity #life

But the vain man did not hear him. Vain men never hear anything but praise. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#vanity #men

I always felt like I was meant to have been born in another era, another time. ↗

— Johnny Depp

#era #interview #magazine-interview #quote #time

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#fault #laughable #laughter #only #vanity

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity. ↗

— Diana Vreeland

#i #loathe #narcissism #vanity

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life. ↗

— Mary Wortley

#happiness #hopes #ignorance #invaluable #life

To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come. ↗

— Emil Zatopek

#already #beat #boast #cannot #come

My vanity is not remotely physical, it is cerebral. I suppose feeling self-conscious might be a form of vanity, though. ↗

— Richard Griffiths

#feeling #form #i #might #physical

The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly. ↗

— Matthew Hale

#clothes #fashion #fine #folly #loving

Stupidity talks, vanity acts. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#stupidity #talks #vanity