#vanity

There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in. ↗

— Helen Hayes

#chair #charlie #christmas #die #each

Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#actually #best #best work #care #comes

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

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#ambitious #content #despise #doubting #exertions

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere. ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

#everywhere #feed #find #magnanimous #more

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#characters #ignorance #pride #truest #vanity

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#application #fine #nothing #rough #skin

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#dishonest #free #heart #life #man

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. ↗

— George Eliot

#ease #ill #indifference #love #return