#vanity

Vanity is my favourite sin. ↗

— Al Pacino

#sin #vanity

I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years. ↗

— Wallace Shawn

#been #birth #definitely #did #diminished

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#dies #hard #man #obstinate #outlives

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead. ↗

— George Savile

#doth #forget #man #oft #teaching

But I feel vanity is a part of art and the non-vain are really non-artistic. ↗

— Barry Webster

#vanity #art

Then the cow asked: "What is a mirror?" "It is a hole in the wall," said the cat. "You look in it, and there you see the picture, and it is so dainty and charming and ethereal and inspiring in its unimaginable beauty that your head turns round and round, and you almost swoon with ecstasy. ↗

— Mark Twain

#self-image #vanity #beauty

I'm not good, of course; I wouldn't give a fig to be good. So it's not vanity. It's on a far grander scale; a splendid selfishness, - authorized, too; and papa and mamma brought me up to worship beauty, -and there's the fifth commandment, you know. ↗

— Harriet Prescott Spofford

#beauty

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

I was good at being charming, one of my very few vanities. ↗

— Jeff Lindsay

#vanity #dreams

Pride is a wound, and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open the wound again and again. In men, it seldom heals and often grows septic. ↗

— Michael Ayrton

#vanity #life